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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: 797. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have undergone halo gravity traction in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals since January 2000, including the length of treatment for each child, broken down by year and across all hospitals within the CHI network, in tabular form. [36853/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: 794. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland has reported any adverse incidents related to the use of halo gravity traction chairs or beds to the Health Products Regulatory Authority; and if so, the follow-up actions taken to investigate and address these incidents. [36850/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (18 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: 795. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that future equipment purchases by Children’s Health Ireland, specifically in the treatment of scoliosis, fully comply with Medical Device Regulations (EU) 2017/745; and whether there are plans to review the procurement process to prevent the use of non-compliant medical devices in the future. [36851/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister for the presentation. I think he commented in response to Deputy O'Rourke that we are on track. He does not mean we are on track to meet our targets, does he?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister agree with the EPA projection that we are on track to miss our first two carbon budget targets, even with additional measures, by between 17% and 27%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: With regard to the 6.8% reductions, what percentage of that is down to the recalculations of historical greenhouse gas inventories?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I will come back to that point. To clarify, the Minister is saying the recalculations had a negative effect. Without those recalculations, and with the current policies being implemented, our greenhouse gases emissions would have fallen by more than the figure of 6.5% or 6.8% that is contained in the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: In the context of these historical emissions, the EPA report states that these revisions together have reduced the agricultural sector emissions by, on average, 1.4 Mt of carbon dioxide per annum for the years from 2018 to 2023 or, in total, by approximately 8.5 Mt over the six-year period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Maybe I am missing something here. The EPA is saying it recalculated how it looked at historical emissions. As I understand it, that is included in the reduction in carbon emissions. The Minister is saying that is true, presumably.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: He is not contesting that. There are other revisions, however, that are not mentioned in this report but which effectively counteract that and more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Why are these historical revisions not mentioned in the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: In this EPA report. It includes the point about the revisions in agriculture and says it amounts to a certain number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I may have missed it. In any event, the Minister is saying on the record that none of the emissions reductions are down to the historical revisions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am not referring to land use on its own but, rather, as an entirety, the Minister is saying these historical-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: It had no part in it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Some of the reductions in the agriculture sector were because of these historical revisions. It is in the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: While I do not want to get bogged down in this, which is, obviously, technical, there is a difference between the Minister saying none of this is down to historical revisions and Mr. Kierans saying the reductions are substantially down to emissions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: He did. He can check the transcript. Does Mr. Kierans agree with the Minister that none of the 6.8% is down to the historical revisions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Okay. To go back to the LULUCF, the Minister mentioned it is not appropriate to treat this area like we treat other sectors in terms of sectorial targets. However, it is in the climate Act that we need to have a sectorial emission target for LULUCF. We do not have that. The Minister is now saying he has a changed approach. Is that going to result in an amendment to the climate Act? Will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan: Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (19 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: Does the Minister have any concerns about the strategy of attracting as many data centres as we can? We keep adding more and more of them to the grid. They are now accounting for 20% of our total electricity consumption. They are heading for 30% by 2030. Does the Minister have any concerns about that strategy in the context of the explosion of AI? It was not really part of the discussion...