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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: There are loads of contradictions in it too.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Somebody has to read it as well, first.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Will Mr. Murnane pass the example on to me or through the committee? I would be interested in that.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: My question is to the Irish Academy of Engineering. Mr. Finlay talked about the common good, environmental consent and so on. We all have to adhere to the Aarhus Convention. I am also on the climate committee. We have to take account of that convention. Mr. Finlay said the IAE wanted environmental laws to be streamlined by referral to the Law Reform Commission. Is that a complicated way...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Yes. Perhaps Mr. Finlay could send them to the committee. Also, does the IAE have examples of the common good being mentioned in legislation in other European countries?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Is it a shortcoming in our Republic?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: We would also be interested in that.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: So, that is for a common good that is recognised.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: We need four elective hospitals as well. There was something else Mr. Leahy mentioned but I cannot remember. I will email him.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: There was one thing. I just cannot find it now.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I remember my question. It was around how design stage was critical for value for money. We think about that as being for architects rather than engineers. Are the witnesses saying that if there was more input from engineers at, say, the design stage of the children's hospital, there could have been money saved?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: How would that compare with other countries around infrastructure?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: We are lower.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: The design phase is basically looking around corners and seeing what things could go wrong.

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee (16 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Children and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 103(2)(b) and 184(a).

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I have a question for IBEC. It said that we do not know what the transition means for energy prices and system reliability in the next decade. Could it clarify what it means around the uncertainty of prices going down? We know renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuel energy and that, according to a report from the International Energy Agency, IEA, published this week, residential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses also said economic conditions cannot keep pace with population and economic growth. Are they suggesting we should be reviewing our targets? What is IBEC's position on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I assume IBEC has spoken to the Government about that.