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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Control of Dogs (3 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Sin deireadh an chláir. The House stands suspended until 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Council (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The Heritage Act 1995 has served us well. It established the Heritage Council and was a visionary piece of work by Michael D. Higgins. However, 1995 is quite a long time ago and there is a commitment from Government to a review of that and to looking at establishing a research function within the Heritage Council. I thank the Minister of State,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Council (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Members are probably used to standing up here and saying they are disappointed with the response they get. I warmly welcome the response from the Minister of State in this case. As I said in my opening remarks, it is really important that we use an evidence-based approach. I refer to that specific point I made about the research function in the Heritage Council, but all of that will be...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I do not have much to say after that. I thank Senator Ryan for sharing her experience with us. It brings into perspective why we are here this evening. We know that so many families are affected through domestic violence and children in particular are affected greatly. This Bill, first introduced by my colleague Vincent P. Martin in the previous Seanad, had got us to Committee Stage. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care of the Elderly (26 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Tá brón orm, a Sheanadóir Ní Chuilinn. Níl an freagra réidh fós so leanfaimid ar aghaidh go dtí Ní i dTosach Suíonna 4.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim leithscéal leis an Seanadóir Ní Chuilinn; níl freagra againn. I do apologise most profusely to Senator Ní Chuilinn. We do not have a response to her question from the Department. I just want to say on the Senator's behalf that it is unacceptable. If a Senator goes to the trouble of tabling a Commencement matter, there should be an answer here for them. I...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I commend the advisory council on the work it did with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council earlier this year on the report on the costs of missing the targets. It is an excellent report. I have a couple of questions, one based on some of the public submissions, from Professor John Sweeney and others, as regards their conclusion around the current...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Donnelly. Is it not really a pipe dream anyway, globally? It is factored into the Paris Agreement but is it not really just pie-in-the-sky stuff, fictitious, in terms of its ability to do anything meaningful?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Just on that point-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I apologise.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I will go back to biodiversity. The nature restoration plan is in train. Is there tracking looking at the higher ambition of the nature restoration plan to meet all of the articled requirements in terms of rewetting peat soils and woodlands, etc? Is that being given consideration in the context of potential for carbon sequestration? The witnesses are also right to say the land use plan...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I go back to the point on the submission from Professor Sweeney. It refers to the Government bringing forward substantial and new additional interventions to directly and reliably reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly than has been achieved to date. Does Ms Donnelly have a view on that?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have two questions. First, can the council go into more detail about the recommendation to bring legal mandates to public bodies in accordance with the 2021 Act in the context of carbon budgets 3 and 4. I know we did this with the National Biodiversity Action Plan when we put a biodiversity duty on public bodies. It is really important to get that recommendation brought forward as...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Would it be possible to add something to the report back to the committee? I know it is more complex, and we still do not have the land use review, but is it possible to engage on the nature restoration plan and how the potential figures at the upper end of the restoration targets might potentially positively impact on sequestering carbon? It is a much more complex area than straight energy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I look forward to an all-Leinster all-Ireland hurling final in a few weeks between Dublin and Kilkenny. On 4 June, the Public Accounts Committee in Westminster received and considered a damning report on the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility in Cumbria. It heard of a crumbling site where there is a suboptimal workplace culture, where the clean-up will take 135 years at a cost of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I understand Senator Crowe will be sharing time with Senator Curley.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: We all want the Minister to succeed. We are all supportive of what he is trying to do. I served in the Department for a number of years and know the diligence of the officials working there and that of the Minister's predecessor. We are facing insurmountable challenges with infrastructure, including water and public transport. The proposals put forward are welcome in terms of extending...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I apologise to our guests for my late arrival and missing the presentation but I have now read the statement. I have a couple of questions. The issue of the accommodation of horses was mentioned. In my own county of Kilkenny, we have had a number of horse projects proposed and stalled for years. It is probably 20 years at this stage. Temporary facilities were put in for horses and then...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: On that point, local development companies such as LEADER companies - particularly those in Kilkenny, speaking from experience - have done good work with Traveller families. A solution can be found. The horse projects have a hugely beneficial effect on the welfare of the animals and on the well-being of young Traveller boys in particular. It requires a more focused attention nationally in...

Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This important debate is my first opportunity to formally welcome him to the Seanad Chamber. I have just come from a meeting of the climate committee where we discussed in private session the challenges regarding climate change, biodiversity loss and water quality. No sector in Ireland will be more greatly affected by a changing climate,...