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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I was attending another meeting on climate change but my understanding is that the contract for the former director of the Arts Council was a final contract and not a temporary contract. Why was the view of the board of the Arts Council disregarded that it would be more beneficial for the public interest that the contract not be extended? There is a vilification of the former director of...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: The challenge, and this was raised the last day, is one of fairness and fair distribution of burden sharing. It appears that we are going to overshoot considerably and each of the overshoots has to be carried into the next budget, which will put further pressure on Ireland to meet its targets at the end of the budgetary cycle and, as per a previous CCAC report, will result in significant...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: The Climate Change Advisory Council has stated clearly there should be no new fossil fuel infrastructure by 2039. In the Minister’s view, does that rule out the need or economic cost of developing public LNG infrastructure in Ireland?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the Minister's comments on the nuclear industry but I will be writing to him and to the Taoiseach about the damning report on the Sellafield reprocessing plant. I ask him to engage with his counterparts on that. On the issue of turf cutting, it is industrial strip mining and it is important that the resources are front loaded to the local authorities to deal with this once and...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I thank the Minister for his presentation. We also dealt with this issue with members of the Climate Change Advisory Council the last day. We had a submission from Professor John Sweeney and others that really calls into question the methodology in carbon budget 3 and the failure to apply the Paris test, moving from reducing the requirement from 160...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Correspondence from the European Commission on securing the nitrates derogation for Ireland will have serious ramifications for the wider rural economy and the agricultural sector generally in terms of demonstrating compliance with the habitats directive. While granting derogations to individual farmers, it is on a subcatchment basis. The requirements for maintaining the nitrates derogation...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My colleague has spoken more broadly on the provisions of the Bill. I will speak specifically to the EU anti-SLAPP directive. While provisions of the Bill give effect to aspects of the EU anti-SLAPP directive, and its application to domestic defamation cases is welcome, it falls short of transposing the directive's full set of minimum standards and protections, which Ireland is legally...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. There have been many excellent contributions this evening on the social, cultural and community needs that are reasons to retain our post office network. I will focus a little on the heritage assets of our towns, looking back at the last programme for Government, under which we introduced the town centres first programme. Thankfully, it has been...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (10 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome our witnesses. I thank LOITV and GAA+ for the important role they both play in promoting their respective games. When it comes to the issue of the content levy, in our consideration, it is important that we cannot treat GAA+ or LOITV in the same way as Disney+ or the big streaming platforms. I am interested to hear the witnesses' views in that regard. I have listened to both the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Does Mr. Scanlon agree that this should be viewed - excuse the pun - as a means of increasing participation? It is obvious that the increasing output of production and the showing of live games are having a positive knock-on effect on the participation of minorities, women and girls in sport. That question is to both witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I just have one question as well. Mr. Quinn mentioned dodgy boxes and the impact they are having. Will he elaborate on this? The numbers seem quite staggering, with 500,000 dodgy boxes out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: They can take the hit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It is very significant. I thank Mr. Quinn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Do not mention the war.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: As the EU prepares the multi-annual financial framework, MFF, for the period 2028 to 2035, there are growing concerns that the European Commission is aligning itself with a far-right agenda. The shift threatens to divert financial resources away from the EU’s long-standing commitments to environmental protection, social progress and international development within Europe and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Register of Electors (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Before I ask the Minister of State to respond, I ask the Senator to be careful about naming individuals in his contribution. A Aire, tá fáilte romhat.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Register of Electors (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I remind the Senator to make general comments in relation to electoral form. As the Minister of State has outlined, it is not appropriate for him to reference specific cases.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Fees (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the presentation. A lot of the questions I had were probably addressed in the response to Deputy Ellis. There is an overarching issue with the cross-collaborative approach, not just from the Department of education. The big challenge from my experience with Traveller families in my own community is that with issues like housing, intergenerational...