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- Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)
Paul Murphy: Hear, hear.
- Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)
Paul Murphy: I endorse the call and encourage people to continue to conserve water. I agree that this definitely concerns domestic users but it also concerns businesses and the State. That is the immediate answer to the crisis we face in ensuring we do not run out of water. That immediate answer does not point to the cause of the crisis, however, or to what it is fundamentally about. As has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Justice Laffoy for her work in chairing the Citizens' Assembly. I also thank all the participants in the Citizens' Assembly who have done an enormous service on this issue and other issues. I have four or five different questions depending on time. I might pose a question, take the answer and move on to the next question if that is acceptable. When one reads the report, it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: I thank Ms Justice Laffoy for that useful clarification. My second question may be in contrast to some of what has been said before. My conclusion from this is not that it is up to politicians to educate the public, it is, rather, that people who are informed are very far ahead of the politicians. That was the case when the people voted on the eighth amendment. There is a very big...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: I would like to ask a particular question about the wording of the question on community or public ownership of future renewable energy projects. According to the report:A number of suggestions were received from Members ... expressing a view that all future renewable energy projects should be publicly State owned, in light of concerns about Ireland's energy security into the future and a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Surely it was up to the Citizens' Assembly to make recommendations. If that means certain laws need to be changed, so be it. If a majority of the members of the assembly felt that there should be public ownership of all future renewable energy projects, they should have had a chance to vote for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: I am referring to paragraph 79 on page 30.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Sure. The Citizens' Assembly is set up to provide recommendations on what needs to happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Surely we should have allowed the assembly to make whatever recommendations it wanted to make. EU law can be changed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Obviously, the Citizens' Assembly cannot change it, just as it cannot change the law in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Is it is possible that it is below the level at which the members of the assembly wanted to see it? That is the important question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Did EU law affect the wording of any of the other questions in this session or any other session?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Okay. My final question relates to the recommendation that an independent body should be established.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Yes. It is implicit in that recommendation that the members of the assembly do not consider the Climate Change Advisory Council to have sufficient teeth to play this role.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Was the advisory council discussed in that context? Was it pointed out that a body already exists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I refer to two aspects of the relationship between economic growth to greenhouse gas emissions. Would the witnesses agree there does not have to be a link between economic growth and increased greenhouse gas? For example, in Britain between 1999 and 2013, transport greenhouse gas emissions fell by 8% in the context of the UK economy expanding...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (5 Sep 2018)
Paul Murphy: My second questions flows on from that. I do not make the point out of any fear for the profits of corporations but because we need to stand up to the polluters and take action regardless of the effect on profit. Undoubtedly, ordinary citizens want to take action, that is reflected in the report of the Citizens' Assembly that we are discussing. However, a problem with the focus on carbon...