Results 41-60 of 2,658 for speaker:Réada Cronin
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: Deputy Ahern asked a question I intended to ask. Does the Minister plan to write to An Coimisiún Pleanála to clarify the situation around LNG sites and our climate law?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: I know the Minister said he had received no letter from the commission. Is he going to write to it?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: Will the Minister write to it to clarify that?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: So the Minister is not going to seek it. He also mentioned peat extraction. It was reported in the news last week that the EPA claims that illegal extraction is widespread and causing damage to biodiversity in local areas. It is also having a knock-on effect on smaller extractors. The increase in illegal extraction will have an impact on people who are doing it legally. It seems...
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: It is going to have an impact-----
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: My next question concerns carbon fines and having to purchase carbon credits because it does look like we are not going to reach our targets. Has the Minister asked the Department to look at what kind of fines we can expect to pay and possibly front load that money into climate initiatives such as offshore renewables?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: Does the Minister believe that meeting the increased demand for data centres is compliant with our climate laws? At the moment we have an existing first-come, first-served basis for new grid connections. Does the Minister think that is consistent with our climate laws? I also raise the fact that data centres gobble up so much of our energy. So many houses are needed which will require new...
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: They are using it.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: Is there anything the Minister for energy can do to ensure that housing is not in second place to-----
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: -----data centres?
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: We all hear about housing being delayed waiting for connections to the grid. It is a problem.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: There are delays.
- Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: So the Minister does not plan to write to the commission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: I am delighted have an opportunity to ask questions at this committee. I am sure the Minister of State knows I am here to ask about Castletown House, which is in Celbridge in my constituency. In October 2021, the OPW submitted a business case to the Department of public expenditure for the purchase of land at Castletown House. It was an unopposed offer of sale but it was rejected by the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: In this case, it was two days and I have documentation from Mr. Conlon stating two days was not sufficient. How much notice would the Department of public expenditure normally get when a business case is made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: A lot more time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: A lot more time than two days. Why then, when the business case was made in 2022, was there again only two days' notice? What measures were taken to make sure this would not happen and why did it happen again that there was only two days' notice of the bid in the business case in 2022?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: Will the Minister of State come back to the committee on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: I would appreciate it. I mentioned that this was an unopposed offer of sale. Did the fact it was an unopposed offer of sale lead to complacency when the OPW was drafting the business case? Did it assume it would be successful regardless of the content and quality of the business case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)
Réada Cronin: The Minister of State will get back to me in writing on this.