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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.