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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for his statement. First, because I have not seen Deputy Coveney since he took up the new role, I congratulate him on taking on the portfolio in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Perhaps it is the most exciting one, from a climate point of view, because of the opportunity there will be for this country in the years and decades ahead as Ireland seeks to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for his answers. I call Deputy Cronin, who is joining us from her office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: The Minister may respond if he wishes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: We are here to discuss the climate action plan, although I know Deputy Cronin is passionate about the broader picture. To be fair to the Minister, we will keep the topic of the debate to the climate action plan as best we can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister and Deputy Farrell. I welcome Deputy O'Sullivan's guest, Max O'Mahony, from Castletownshend in County Cork. There are at least three Corkmen in the room now so the rest of us are outnumbered. Max is very welcome. I thank him for joining us and I hope the session is of interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: No, it is not possible for you to ask a question, Max, perhaps you can do so through Deputy O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: Deputy O'Rourke has just raised something that the committee has examined in the past few months. We will have another session on it, I believe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: Greenwashing and advertisers or companies-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: Yes. We had a very good session with representatives of the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland, and we will have another. Increasingly, we will come back to this because consumers want to make the right choices when purchasing. It is difficult for them to do so when there is a lot of misinformation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: We would appreciate that. Increasingly, consumers really do want to make the right choices. In an environment where there is a lot of vague or misleading information, that is difficult.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: I am going to interrupt the Deputy because, to be fair to the Minister, this is very much unrelated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will bring it back to the climate piece with respect to remote working and the savings that might be there. I do not see anything in the enterprise, trade and employment section of the climate action plan. It is arguably more for the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to figure out the climate benefit of enabling further remote working. It would be interesting to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: Are you saying that the committee cannot decamp to the south of Spain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: If there are no other questions we will finish. I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in. It was a very interesting discussion. We will have him back next year to go through it all again. The process is that there will be a yearly engagement with the relevant Ministers. The Minister's Department has a very important role to play. I look forward to seeing progress in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: That includes the experience we got from the trip to Aberdeen. Deputy Farrell was on that trip but, unfortunately, did not see the wind turbines. That is a story for another day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister and his officials.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (22 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the approved Pathfinder programme for Naas, County Kildare; and if the funding is in place and can be drawn down as soon as the local authority is ready to do same. [9025/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: 26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the outcomes of the pilot bike and e-bike upcycling initiative; her plans to bring additional organisations into the initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9229/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: 56. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the proactive steps her Department is taking to work with the Department of Transport to explore and realise the potential of e-bikes for rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9230/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (23 Feb 2023)

Brian Leddin: 149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to expand the regional business innovation centres to include the Midwest region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9221/23]