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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will have a private meeting on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Before we conclude I thank the witnesses for coming in at very short notice. Obviously, we as public representatives have a specific role in the subsidiarity. So much has happened on climate change at a national level over the recent past. We have had the climate change Bill and the climate action plan, and climate budgets will be coming out in the next week. Yet there is very little...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are other aspects; that was one of them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: As Mr. Ó Ciaruáin will appreciate, we have a differ role. Deputy Shanahan wishes to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I do not know if Deputy Shanahan will regard this as good or bad news but as he is deputising for Deputy Lowry, he steps into the Deputy's role. He is, therefore, considered a full member of the committee and is more than welcome to take part in our private meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: These are matters we will consider in private.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the text of each of the COMs, the legislative proposals, provide a detailed analysis of how the proposal will impact on individual countries?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are they available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the kernel for the committee because that is our role. We are national rather than European representatives. Did Mr. Gallagher catch the question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the 55% target the first absolute target that has been set? We have set a 51% target here by 2030. Have specific analyses been done on the impact per country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: On the issue with the 55% rate, we had flexibility to set the 51% rate. We have to meet the target by 2050 and have set a target by 2030. The 55% rate by 2050 is an absolute rate. All countries are duty-bound to meet that rate. If they do not do so, are they subject to penalties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would Mr. Burke like to make any concluding comments? He gave an overview earlier. Will he give us what he has about the impact on Ireland Inc? Would he or his colleagues like to make any concluding comments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Burke, Ms O'Brien, Ms Waller, Mr. Ó Ciaruáin and Mr. Gallagher for today's engagement with the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: No apologies have been received. Today is an engagement with the chairperson-designate of the DAA and a discussion of his strategic priorities for the role, as well as his views on the challenges facing the organisation. On behalf of the committee I welcome the chairperson designate, Mr. Basil Geoghegan, and the chief communications officer of the DAA, Mr. Kevin Cullinane. They are both...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Geoghegan. We will move to questions from members. Senator Buttimer has approximately seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: When Mr. Geoghegan was appointed originally as a director, was he appointed as a chairman? Did he come in as a director and then become chairman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: So, it was not the case that the two appointments did not coincide. Mr. Geoghegan was appointed as chair designate and the board was able to give him the power in terms of functionality to access the records as if he were chairman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Until such time as he is formally appointed. Has the formal letter of appointment, appointing Mr. Geoghegan as chairman, been issued from the Department to the DAA yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is interesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Horkan needs to conclude.