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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Horton and invite Professor Whelan to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I thank Professor Whelan for his opening statement. I ask members to indicate if they want to come in to ask questions. I will lead off with a few of my own. I found the opening statements incredibly educational and I am certainly a lay person when it comes to this issue. They were so thorough, informative, and truly enlightening. I say that as somebody who has vast experience of boating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Does anyone else wish to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Horton and call Deputy Whitmore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I do not know if the IFI wants to come in on that. We have also heard how complex these issues are from a science and regulatory side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Deputy O'Sullivan has been waiting very patiently to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I would like to come in on that question because those are very pertinent questions and observations. We are straying into the remit of other State agencies. It would be very good to hear what the witnesses have to say about how the remit might be changed. I know it is a sensitive thing, and perhaps more so with the IFI, but our more independent witnesses might have strong views on that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Does Mr. Gallagher wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Thank you. I should have said “Dr. Gallagher”, not “Mr. Gallagher”, and acknowledged your credentials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Does Mr. O'Donnell want to name the agencies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I do not know if Deputy O'Rourke wants to press him on that but it seems we do need to hear who they are. I understand the sensitivity of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: I think part of it is in Limerick. It stretches up into Tipperary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Deputy Whitmore do you want to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Whatever about the Department of housing, which IFI is very involved with, we will have the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform at the committee meeting on Thursday, so I am sure Deputy Whitmore will be interested in asking the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, about the investment in the public sector and about making those roles permanent. We are at the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Flood Relief Schemes (14 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the progress made by the steering group to advance the flood mitigation works at Ballycar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7093/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 19. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures that have been implemented to support Irish participation in the Olympic and Paralympic games Paris 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6954/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline for the announcement of successful applications from sporting clubs for the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6987/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regional Development (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the concern raised in the recent ESRI report ‘the National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity’ that the eastern and midland region is experiencing a share of population growth beyond that envisaged in the National Planning Framework 2040 target, the need for rebalanced regional...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the assessment of the transit-oriented development in Limerick, Galway, Cork and Waterford; whether the timeline is on schedule for Q1 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6984/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputies Richard Bruton and Jennifer Whitmore. The purpose of the meeting is to have a discussion about the climate action plan and continue our review of it. In that regard, we have invited the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, to come before the committee. Other Ministers have come...