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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Deputy Matthews got to a few of those points ahead of me. It is important that we recognise the full power of citizen-led data gathering, notwithstanding the concerns around GDPR, which we have to take seriously. It seems to me there is an opportunity here to create, as other jurisdictions have done very effectively, a portal where citizens can upload evidence, whether it is admissible or...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I agree with the Minister that we have to get the balance right and have to respect personal privacy. However, I think we all agree that some of the behaviours we see on our roads are quite terrible. Just last week, I was nearly killed on the quays in Dublin. We come across these near misses every time we walk, cycle or even drive. In getting that balance right, we need to understand just...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: In respect of amendment No. 64, will the Minister explain the extent of the Dublin Transport Authority Act? Are we talking about places within Dublin or does the range go outside Dublin? That is the first question. Second, it seems to give compulsory purchase power to the authority to mitigate the impact of public transport infrastructure by purchasing land. I would argue it should...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I wish to ask about giving compulsory purchase order, CPO, powers over private land to provide car parking. I am not sure that this is something that we should be empowering road authorities to do. Notwithstanding that point, it seems to me that this power should extend to active travel infrastructure as well as public transport infrastructure.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: It was on compulsorily purchasing land.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I have yet to see a situation where public land could not be used for providing that parking, if required. This provision goes further, though, and gives the power to acquire private land in order to provide parking. That is a step too far and is not consistent with reallocating road space in public space. I would not like it if my front garden was commandeered to replace some parking that...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Amendment No. 65 deletes five lines. This part of the section looked positive to me. If an existing building, structure or amenity was removed as part of the development of a public transport project, the local authority would have had the power to replace it. However, amendment No. 65 is proposing to remove that power. I would have thought that the paragraph was a positive element of the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: The subsection reads: a compulsory purchase order made ... for the purpose of mitigating the impact of any public transport infrastructure provided on the environment generally or on— (a) any particular site, building or structure, (b) the availability of parking, or (c) trees, landscaping and planting, in particular, where appropriate, by relocating or replacing (if necessary...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I support Deputy Matthews's comments. I welcome the amendment. There might be an opportunity to go a bit further. Electric bikes and cargo bikes are electric vehicles as well. We could get into that space. Deputy Matthews talked about smaller and lighter vehicles. The main driving force - pardon the pun - with respect to vehicular transport should be the smaller, the lighter and the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Does this EV office include zero emission vehicles such as bikes, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes? Does its remit cover those as well?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: On the other point in respect of the section on An Bord Pleanála, the way it reads, it does not refer to sustainable or public transport infrastructure at all. It states: "a proposed road development". It can be seen how in some future scenario this gives An Bord Pleanála not just the power but creates a requirement to approve a proposed road development that contravenes a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: If it is okay, I will bring you back in in a few minutes because Deputy Whitmore needs to chair another committee in ten minutes' time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the witnesses for the replies. Is the Department is committed to demand management, reduction and the avoid, shift and improve principle? That is really about electric vehicles where there is no other way of providing the transport needs of the population. If the Department is committed to this, it would have a much larger target either for the vehicles powered by fossil fuels or a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Okay. Mr. Kierans, you are in the hot seat.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (14 Jul 2022)

Brian Leddin: 33. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to pursue value enhancing market avenues as an alternative to live animal exports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38247/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (14 Jul 2022)

Brian Leddin: 43. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount by which the area of agricultural land under organic production has increased since the Government took office; and when next the organic farming scheme will reopen for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38246/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Devlin and Senators Higgins and Pauline O'Reilly. This meeting is to discuss anaerobic digestion and the bioeconomy in general as well. I welcome our witnesses, some of whom are familiar faces and are welcome back and some of whom are new to this committee. From Cré, I welcome Mr. Percy Foster, chief executive, and Mr. Tony Breton, chair. From...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Breton for that opening statement. We go now to Mr. Cullinan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Brian Leddin: Sorry, Mr. Cullinan. We have limited time, and I see that your statement is quite lengthy. Perhaps you might skip the EU bit, and go on to the IFA's policy asks. That will get to the nub of the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Brian Leddin: I ask Mr. Cullinan to conclude very quickly.