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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from energy storage infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53710/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from fossil-fuelled electricity generation infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53711/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from electricity distribution infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53712/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from electricity transmission infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53713/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from petrol/diesel filling stations, broken down, by local authority. [53714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current expenditure of each local authority for liquid transport fuels, solid fossil heating fuels, liquid fossil heating fuels, fossil gas heating fuels, renewable heating fuels and electricity. [53717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current direct income (other than rates income) of each local authority from renewable energy installations. [53718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (5 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial supports that will be provided to farmers for the safe removal of diseased ash trees on road-fronting farmland in circumstances where farmers are not trained to remove such trees safely and cannot afford to pay a contractor to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53666/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the review of the Climate Action Plan 2023 with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Coveney. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister and his officials to the meeting this afternoon. Before we start, I will read out the note on privilege. I remind the witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I invite members to indicate if they wish to ask questions. We have a further hour and 45 minutes and must conclude by 3.30 p.m. Therefore, I ask members to be succinct in their questions and the Minister to be as brief as possible in his replies. On the two big proposals, will the Minister provide timelines for the industrial emissions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Next year’s climate action plan is probably drafted and ready to go. Can we expect to see anything new in there or will it be a case of doubling down on last year's plan and getting it right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: To clarify, I said the meeting will finish at 3.30 p.m. but it will be at 3 p.m., so we have only slightly more than an hour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thought Deputy Bruton would relish the opportunity to explore this further at the committee. As we come to discuss our work programme for next year, perhaps it is something we could look at in the earlier part of the year and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Very good. We have made Deputy Bruton our committee rapporteur in the area of the circular economy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: You definitely will not be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: We have to finish up at 3 p.m. so I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for that response and Senator O'Reilly for her questions. I call Deputy Paul Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: As I said when the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, was at the committee last week, ordinarily, we do not get to have this kind of back and forth with a Minister to discuss in detail some of the challenges. It is a fantastic discussion and we are teasing out the problems we are trying to solve. It shows the power of the process put in place with the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Other sectors may have primary responsibility in electricity generation and agriculture but so does the Minister's. No sector can operate independently. The Minister is very passionate about Ireland's offshore opportunity in the decades ahead. It is fair and legitimate to say, given the limited resources at the Department of housing, that it is focusing on the east coast development of our...