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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: Dr. Beausang said that the methane leakage would be captured in the accounting statistics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: One could argue that methane leakage is part of the natural process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: I would not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: There was a specific question for Dr. Beausang.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: We are hearing today there is a balance and an optimum approach to this. We are not hearing huge disagreement that there is an important role for anaerobic digestion in bioenergy. It is about getting the balance between economic opportunity and other factors. The social benefit Mr. Cullinan mentioned of bringing jobs to rural Ireland is an important consideration. The environmental impact...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: Mr. McCarthy is arguing that we should get on with it and not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: Mr. McCarthy is also advocating for a good review system so we constantly look at the issue to see where we are getting it right and wrong. How do we get that review system right? Mr. McCarthy mentioned a number of academic institutions. The Environmental Protection Agency will be an important voice in all of this and will be monitoring the situation. If the Government takes the approach...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: We are not reinventing the wheel but there are many moving parts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: I apologise to Mr. Finan. I meant to bring him in on the last question. He may address the points if he would like.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Breton for the invitation. We certainly will consider that. Since there are no other guests indicating to come in, I will start to wrap it up. I thank everyone for coming in today. We seldom have so many guests in the room, yet we got through a lot. I thank our guests for their co-operation and for coming in at short notice. This session was not planned at the outset, but a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Chairman and thank Senator Buttimer for letting me in. I wish to pick up on an issue raised by what Deputy Catherine Murphy described about the Sallins bypass and the knock-on effect with the issue in Clane. It proves that when we build these roads and bypasses, they just beget more roads and more bypasses, so we need to think differently about transport. I welcome the NTA's...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022) Brian Leddin: I thank the Deputy for stepping in today. I welcome the Minister of State. To build on or to explore Deputy Bríd Smith’s concerns further, I would certainly like to see what the projected growth in demand for electricity would be in the context of the data centres that are planned and then what it would be without them. There is a narrative that we are building this extra...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank our guests for attending. I particularly welcome Mr. Hourigan, who is from Limerick. It is a wonder that either of us made it to the meeting, given the celebrations in recent days with Limerick winning the All-Ireland hurling final. It is good to be here and to have our guests here. I am hearing divergence between the three guests who have contributed on the issue of the natural...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Professor Allen. I understand that. He has clarified things for me. It is really important that we do not walk out of this room and say that methane from ruminant livestock is effectively benign because it is part of this natural cycle. The inference from that would be that we could increase numbers by ten or 100 times and it would not matter. Professor Allen is not saying that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Calculation of Methane Emissions: Discussion (20 Jul 2022)
Brian Leddin: Would Professor Allen agree that if methane has had this warming impact and if future methane increases would have a greater warming impact, it is also true that reducing methane would have a cooling impact?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Brian Leddin: I welcome members back after the summer break. At the outset, the purpose of the meeting today is to discuss energy security, including supply and demand, electricity generation capacity, plans to best manage supply and demand and, of course, to protect vulnerable users in the coming months. On behalf of this committee I welcome the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Foley and invite Ms MacEvilly to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms MacEvilly for her statement. I invite members to indicate. Most of them have already done so. I appreciate their eagerness to get in early on this issue. The meeting is confined to three hours. It is a complex and detailed subject so I ask members, as usual, to confine questions to two minutes. I will be strict in that regard but, if we have time, we will go back for second...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Brian Leddin: Before I bring the Minister in, I wish to ask Ms MacEvilly a question on market reform. Does she want to come in on that? What is the role of the regulator now that the European Commission President said yesterday that serious significant reform is needed and the architecture is not fit for purpose? What responsibility and power does the CRU have to reform the Irish market as an Irish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Foley for that. I call Senator Pauline O'Reilly.