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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: To go back to the rewetting, did I hear correctly when Mr. Condon said that he believed the rewetting would make the land more polluting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Would Dr. McGoff like to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: We should look at it. It is the first I have heard of it. Dr. McGoff's explanation that there might be a very short-term-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: We will have a look at that. To our guests joining us online, I ask them to use the raise-hand function if they wish to come in at any stage. I call Mr. Roddy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: The EPA did a report approximately 18 months ago and the report found that the emissions associated with peaty soils was much larger than had been previously understood. The EPA are obviously a bona fide organisation that has come back and said that they are a source of emissions to the tune of, I think, 5 or 6 megatonnes, if I am correct. We will go back and look at the research but we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I expect the EPA is looking at the Irish context but I thank Mr. Roddy for that. Ms O'Sullivan, on the same question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Phase 1 was to establish the baseline data.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Is Ms O'Sullivan saying that uncertainty still pertains to phase 1 of the land use review?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Mr. Kelly is saying that the science is clearer than ever. It tells us that the situation is worse than we previously understood.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: It is consultation on both the NRL and the land-use review with Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Whitmore also asked about the impact of not doing this. Was that question also directed at the farming organisations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I am going to push the debate on because a lot of members are looking to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I ask him to be brief as I want to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: On the nature restoration law, it will be broader and it is not totally focused on carbon. It is important to state that. I will go to Mr. Kelly and then we will move on because other members are looking to come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I am sorry; I think I missed Ms O'Neill out the last time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Kelly. Is Deputy O'Rourke's question for the farming organisations as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Does Deputy O'Rourke have enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Having said that, it is not a good analogy because the State sets targets for housing as much as it does for agriculture. Once the targets get agreed we then decide what the incentives and the policies will be. Currently, we do not have a situation where farmers are being forced to rewet their land. We are trying to agree what the target should be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: The retrofitting comes under the law and the climate action plans as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Is the witness referring to the AR6 report?