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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am conscious of time. We might get summaries on the other points and I have no doubt we will have plenty of time for speakers to come back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We might have a brief overview and members can then come back in. I want to bring a bit of structure to the discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am conscious I have other members waiting and we have a defined time. We will cover the questions broadly and we can then come back again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are not dealing with COM (2021) 567. It is COM (2021) 552.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: My apologies, it is down as COM (2021) 559 in the briefing note. Is this the one on the alternative fuels infrastructure regulation? It is just that we do not have the briefing note on COM 567.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can we please move on and get a bare coverage of the issues? I am conscious members are waiting to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Mr. Ó Ciaruáin to be brief. I did not want this to be a very long debate. I just wanted a summary before we probed the various issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Buttimer's point was on what the penalties are. If you are reporting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With respect to regulations that have been enforced by Europe on climate change, what have we signed up to? What has been agreed at European level that we are required to implement in Ireland, at this moment in time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, I am referring to targets we are to meet like the reduction by over 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050. Is that coming from Europe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am more interested in what Europe is bringing in. I have listened to it. There is a terrible lack of information for me as a public representative. I do not really understand the implications of what is being proposed here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. It is very abstract. We are getting something where we as a committee are being asked to make a decision with a turnaround time of virtually a week. Members feel it is too short a time and yet it could have huge implications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What I want to do here is try to distil it down to the decision we must make. At this moment in time, where do we stand in relation to EU directives and law on climate targets and climate change? These are measures we are implementing on the basis of items that have been agreed at European level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Burke may want to speak about transport but I am interested in what has been agreed generally. I need to find out what the situation is now. Ignore these COMs. What is the situation now? I want to feed that back into the climate change Bill that has come in as law and the climate action Bill with the climate budgets. I want to bring it down to the people who we represent, such as the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Burke, I need to get a handle on where we are at the moment vis-à-visEurope on the current items we have signed up to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Burke not even have the general parameters we have signed up to? We spoke with Mr. Ó Ciaruáin about it. These particular COMs look at achieving a target of 55% reductions from 1990 levels. Is that correct? We are looking, under the climate Act, to achieving a target of 51% by 2030. Is that based on a base year of 2018?