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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: It is a question we need to answer very quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am very interested in what the forum or dialogue looks like. Can Ms Clancy give examples in other countries? Is anybody getting this right? I dare say the challenges we have here are replicated in other countries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I have heard of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: We do not having something in Ireland and, hence, politicians will go to the representative bodies or lobby groups.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: Talamh Beo is great but it is very small. How do we get an inclusive dialogue with a very small subset of the community? Are there successes in other countries in dialogue at national level that gives people in communities at the lowest level an opportunity to feed into it and, ultimately, get a consensus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: That is just one example. It is across all sectors and communities. I guess that is why we are here today. The representatives have given us very good answers but we have to figure out what that talk looks like. What is the right way of doing this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I will give the last word to Ms Kelliher.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: Does it make sense for the Government to take its cue from the public participation network, PPN, as to how that should look? Should the PPN propose what the dialogue should be in the first instance, acknowledging that it is iterative and needs to evolve, rather than Government saying it will talk now and asking the PPN to tell us what it thinks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: As the PPN develops a few steps with investment, resources and so on, it may become that but it is not there yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: That is only the people in Clare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: We have to finish at 2 p.m. I ask you to be very brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: The committee would certainly welcome that. We are going to write and publish a report in the next few months on climate action at community level. Mr. Stanley's network should have a strong voice in that, but we have to be mindful of the question of time. I know it would be difficult to get all of the people and groups together, consolidate the various views and come up with a consensus...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: Yes. That point was well made. We will try to capture the essence of this meeting in the report. If the witnesses wish to reiterate or reinforce any point in a written submission to us, we would appreciate anything they give us. I thank the witnesses for attending. We appreciate their time, effort and expertise. It has been an engaging and thought-provoking session.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Flood Risk Management (10 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made by the steering group to advance the flood mitigation works at Ballycar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55751/22]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I commend the Taoiseach on the genuine and effective leadership he showed on the international stage last week. He told the international community that we do not have a minute to lose in our efforts to combat climate change. There is a missing piece in this country in how we communicate the importance of climate change to our communities across the country. Climate action at ground level...
- Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I endorse Deputy Ó Ríordáin's point on the challenge in gender and science. I am an engineer by training. Engineering is where science meets pragmatic application in many ways. We have a massive challenge in engineering to get balance; we are far from it. We do not have enough young women getting into the sector. If we did, I dare say that many of the challenges we have in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am delighted you have talked to Limerick in your slot. It is a nice segue for me to talk about Limerick as well. It kind of feels as though we are back in the council chamber in Merchant's Quay. I have to say it is not a bad feeling. It is good to see the representatives from Limerick City and County Council here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I feel like calling them Caroline, Gordon and Pat. Forgive me if I slip. Limerick and Waterford are my favourite Munster cities. Thus, the local authority representatives are very welcome here today. I congratulate both local authorities on the work they are doing. I am more familiar with Limerick. Other members have alluded to the great work on the acquisition of derelict and vacant...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: I will not forget east Limerick. We will bring the trains to east Limerick eventually-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)
Brian Leddin: ------but we have good infrastructure in west Limerick which we will open up again. I wish to speak about the potential and what the local authority can do to embrace the dormant infrastructure. Incredibly good work has been done. I have worked with my colleagues, Mr. Seán Hartigan and Ms Saša Novak, in the process of putting together the city and county development plan. All...