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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: Maybe we could have a bit more information than the average time because that can be misleading. Perhaps we could have an analysis of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: Great. Thank you, Ms Twomey. We will finish up. I thank Ms Costello, Ms Twomey and Mr. Lee for attending and Mr. White for joining us from London. We very much appreciate their time and expertise. It has been a very interesting discussion and it will certainly help us as we grapple with a very difficult issue. We hope to produce a report in the new year. If the witnesses have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: I call Senator Alice-Mary Higgins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: If a precedent is set, and those advertising breach that precedent because it suits them, and they can get their advertising out to millions of people which sells their products, what happens then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: It would be helpful if Ms Costello could find a breakdown. It would help the committee in its formulation of a report and recommendations to have those figures. In our previous session, representatives of the public service broadcaster, RTÉ, were before the committee. They were clear that advertising is separate from content creation. Towards the end of the session, they conceded...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I welcome the climate action plan. It is the first statutory plan since the adoption of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 and the agreement last year on the sectoral emissions ceilings. One of the critical pieces of the climate Act is that it provides for an annual revisable plan and should we find we are off track at any point, we can review and revise the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I welcome the director to the meeting and thank him for his presentation and for answering our questions. When we talk about rewetting, we are talking about returning land to a state in which it was in the past. In Ireland, we are talking principally about marginal land that would have been drained in the past half century. We are probably not talking about other lands. That is where most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I do not know how much of my contribution was heard by the director so I will go back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: As I understand it, that legislation on the Irish Statute Book was primarily a labour activation measure but it brought marginal land - much of which consisted of peaty soils, which we now know emit carbon - into agricultural use. I do not want to say it involves a lot of that land. It would be premature to say so because we do not yet have the output of the land use review. That will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider developing a scheme, separate to grants provided by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, to support home help, home care and domiciliary carers who are car-dependent due to their work to purchase electric vehicles in order to support this sector and contribute to the Government’s climate goals;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: Assuming the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, takes the question, I want to congratulate him on his new role and his return to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, a Department he knows well. I wish to ask the Minister if he will consider developing a scheme, separate to grants provided by SEAI, to support home help, home care and domiciliary carers who are car-dependent due to their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I acknowledge the Minister's answer. When I was seeking to direct the question I struggled somewhat, because certainly, on the face of it it does appear to be a question that would fall perhaps primarily within the remit of the Department of Transport, but as the Minister has acknowledged, it is a cross-cutting matter. Indeed, it is an all-of-government matter. Were the Government to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: As the Minister has acknowledged, the issue is something that should be on the Minister for Health's desk as well. There is a huge challenge in the recruitment of healthcare workers, particularly at this end of the sector. The scheme might be something that the Government could consider to attract people into the sector. Many of these workers are rurally-based, and that is why they are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the new National Cycle Manual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2439/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the effectiveness of increased fines for parking on footpaths and cycle lanes is being reviewed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2438/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost to the Exchequer associated with the provisions of the Arterial Drainage Act 1945; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2436/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (24 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: The challenging situation at University Hospital Limerick, UHL, has been well reported over the past few weeks. Just last weekend, thousands of citizens from across the mid-west region marched in Limerick city to demand that the situation be resolved. One of the demands is that the accident and emergency departments at Ennis, Nenagh and St John's hospitals be reopened. I acknowledge that...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: No apologies have been received. The purpose of today's meeting is to conduct the Committee Stage consideration of the Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth. Before we commence our consideration of the Bill, I call on the Minister of State to make some opening remarks.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State for his opening remarks.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: Amendment No. 2 is ruled out of order and will not be discussed.