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

Malcolm Noonan: Are there specific programmes for breastfeeding support for Traveller women? I know the breastfeeding rates among Traveller women are very low, and low nationally and generally, but are there specific programmes there in relation to that?

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

Malcolm Noonan: Over the past months, we have consistently dealt with the issue of suicide rates among the Traveller community. I know the main role in suicide prevention lies with the National Office of Suicide Prevention, NOSP, and the HSE. Does Tusla have a role in training social workers in culturally appropriate interventions, from a postvention point of view where there has been a suicide event in a...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes. Sometimes, postvention after a suicide event is equally important because there are possible contagion issues if someone has died by suicide. That culturally important training in the context of suicide prevention is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My first question is for the NTA. One of the key strategic objectives in terms of trying to reduce our emissions from transport is the need to reduce the level of car use. We spoke to the Love 30 campaign last week about default speed limits, which are an issue for local authorities. Default speed limits of 30 km/h in urban areas and a proper definition of what urban areas are, because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My next question is probably for the road hauliers, but it is a general question on bypassing our urban centres. Mr. Hyland mentioned the issue of trucks braking. Some pilot work has been done on efficient driving for HGV drivers. Separately, in urban areas, there is a significant challenge where truck drivers have to constantly brake and stop-start. This has an impact on fuel use. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Development Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Development Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Minister. It is always great to have a senior Minister in with us. We appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: If drivers are making the choice to bypass the tolls, that is having a knock-on impact in towns from both a safety and an air-quality point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: This has been a really useful session and a serious eye-opener for me. I sense a level of frustration from a lot of the sectors. The committee's reporting on this needs to reflect that frustration. It appears to me that there is a failure to look at these issues overall in the Department through an emissions reduction lens. That is what we are trying to achieve here. If there are...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: In the minute I have I want to focus, unsurprisingly, on nature, heritage and cultural institutions. I am just back from Geneva with some of the representatives of the Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss where we presented at the human rights, democracy and rule of law forum. I appreciate the support the Taoiseach gave to me as Minister of State with responsibility for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the witnesses. It is one of those days. I have the witnesses all to myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I am just off the airplane from a UN event on climate in Geneva. I apologise that I have not done my homework. I have a couple of questions from my own perspective. The first is for both Chambers Ireland and IBEC. Do they have concerns at the absence of both marine protected area legislation and defined areas for MPAs in light of the ambition around offshore renewables? There is now a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It is the availability of all data relevant and necessary to move the project along that is important. In relation to the Climate Change Advisory Council report this morning and yesterday's EPA report on water quality, we cannot disassociate the challenges around biodiversity and water quality, particularly with the storm events we are having and that resilience we need to build into our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It would be useful to have the business sector advocating for this, as well as the typical sectors on the environmental and NGO side of it, because this has a very significant impact on the cost of doing business and on business generally. It would be wonderful to see greater advocacy in that space from IBEC and Chambers Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Is it the citizens' assembly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: For sure. Business for Biodiversity Ireland does a lot of good work in this space as well. Some of the work we did previously was with the NPWS and Intel around water management. There is a good opportunity there for the business sector and corporates to be involved in biodiversity restoration projects, which is something that is increasingly entering that space. I have a final...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Absolutely. That is what this committee is about. If there is an opportunity when we have that session, it might be useful to welcome Chambers Ireland back to discuss this.