Results 1,441-1,460 of 4,573 for speaker:Brian Leddin
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: Okay. I am advised that it is all right if they relate to the one programme.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: I think we are looking at different tables. Deputy O'Rourke is looking at subhead A1.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: There were other questions from Deputy O'Rourke.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: If the Minister of State wants to bring in his officials, we can go into private session, to elaborate on any of those answers.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: It is up to the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: Deputy O'Rourke is happy.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: I will also give the Deputy time to look through the subhead, if she wants, and I can come back to her.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: My question is on subhead A3, which relates to the funding of the EPA. I welcome the Minister of State's note that the salaries have increased and there are 90 extra personnel in the EPA, which is very welcome. I hear frequently from all sectors of society that there is a slowness in the process of the EPA in terms of issuing licences, decision making and so on. We are in a situation in...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: We now move to programme B.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: We would appreciate it if the Minister of State could revert to us on that timeframe.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: Yes, that would be great. I call Deputy Whitmore.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: My questions on programme B were all related to the programme that is going to be announced, which the Minister of State is not going to tell us anything about.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: I am sure the Minister of State has a good insight but we await the six o’clock news. We move to programme C. I call Deputy Whitmore.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: Yes, we will do that now.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: Deputy Devlin has indicated.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: Is anyone else indicating on this programme? They are not. I have a general question on the programme. It is a restructuring of the programme entitled "Circular Economy Development". Does the Minister of State want to speak to the reasons behind that restructuring?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (8 Feb 2022) Brian Leddin: I agree it is very positive. There are no members indicating. We have completed our consideration of the programmes. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for assisting the committee in our consideration of the Revised Estimates. I also thank members for their probing questions.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Message to Dáil (8 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Environment and Climate Action has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I welcome our guests. It is wonderful to have four of them in the committee room and fantastic to be back to having witnesses in the committee room. I also welcome Mr. Sheehan, who is joining us online. Mr. Sheehan and I met in the climate committee five or six months ago and our session then was very interesting. I am not coming at this from a farming background and would not pretend to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedgerows, Carbon and Biodiversity: Hedgerows Ireland (9 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am thinking of the climate challenge and I think I read in one of the briefing papers that we can say our hedgerows sequester something like half a megatonne. That is significant in terms of the reductions we are trying to get.