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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Ms Joyce. I will take questions from members now.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: That is a good suggestion.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I know Senator Maria Byrne has to depart.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My final question goes back to the point that Mr. Conor Arnold made about the delays in the response. Is there a required standard operating procedure for rapid response and analysis in response to fish kills, including rapid water chemistry testing, which all agency staff in county councils should be employing? If not, perhaps it is something that could come out of recommendations of this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Before I ask Ms Joyce to respond, I note that we have asked Tusla to come before the committee. It would be useful to have a session with that agency.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Ms Joyce and Ms McDonagh for their wonderful presentation. I allowed the conversation to flow there because it was important to get their views. They have provided us with quite an ambitious set of recommendations here as well that we will take into our work. It has been a fantastic session. I really appreciate their time, and that of the members. With that, the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the witnesses. In relation to LULUCF, it appears - I will put this question to the Department - that with the additional measure scenario, Ireland would be in a good position in terms of the effort-sharing regulation for this period, for 2021-25. Is it the Department's view that going for that higher level of ambition would give us that flexibility to meet our EU targets under LULUCF?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: With the ongoing work that is taking place around the nature restoration plan, does the Department see a really good opportunity for farmers to be involved in schemes and embed, through the CAP strategic plan, schemes that would have had short-term cycles, such as LIFE projects and EIPs, into a much longer-term funding mechanism for restoration, grassland management and expansion of wet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: This obviously involves the work with Teagasc in not just socialising that - I apologise to the Chair, I will come back in the second round - but also ensuring there are good training programmes embedded in Kildalton to support farmers to make that. For a lot of farms over the past number of years, particularly those in the south east and intensive dairy farms where farmers are implementing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: This has been a really useful session. I have a quick question on AD. The biomethane strategy seems to be very much based on using grass rather than secondary farm slurries or food waste, with which we could actually deliver greater benefits in addressing emissions. One of the early AD plants in this country, in Kilkenny, my home county, has been using secondary farm slurries consistently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have a second question. Has the carbon intensity of using the land for AD rather than for ruminants been calculated? Has there been a cross-check analysis of the carbon savings from such a system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the witnesses for the opening remarks. I have a couple of questions, particularly on the point Mr. Murphy made about the market rewarding low cost over low carbon. It is something that is becoming pertinent of late because of rising food prices. Does the sector see that perhaps the value of food in this country has been undervalued in terms of the prices farmers, as price takers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Surely that goes back to the point that Mr. Murphy mentioned about the climate and nature fund. A significant portion of that, some €650 million, was to be set aside. This was the start of a rolling fund. It is a question I put to Department officials about moving out of projects with a short-term projects, such as LIFE and EIPs. They have been brilliant, but many farmers might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: The farm plan scheme, on designated land, has been fantastic. Such schemes need to be ramped up significantly.

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation): Statements (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I reiterate the point made by my colleague about the cut in the VAT rate to 9%. I would question giving a handout to Starbucks when many of our small, independent businesses are in real trouble. A targeted scheme such as a rates rebate for smaller businesses would have been more effective. I welcome the commitment to make the basic income...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It has been a very useful session following on from the session last week with the National Traveller Women's Forum and addressing some of the issues, particularly around ethnicity. I find in our community in Kilkenny that there seems to be a very disparate approach in terms of who is leading on Traveller development work. At times, across the country, that disparate aspect is leading to...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Yes, it is that family approach and the wraparound services-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: -----and a consistency of approach that I find is quite frustrating for people. Then again, the other issue and a chronic challenge with youth work we encounter routinely from meeting with Youth Work Ireland is the inability to even recruit workers because of pay within the sector. That, in itself, is having a knock-on effect. I know a lot of youth organisations across the country are...