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An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Aois Vótála a Laghdú go Sé Bliana Déag), 2025: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Reduction of Voting Age to Sixteen Years) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I too welcome this Private Members' Bill put forward by Deputy Farrelly. I look forward to supporting it. The concept of reducing the voting age to include 16 and 17-year-olds is one the Green Party has supported for a long time. When we first used to advocate for this change it was seen as radical, out there and unusual. That is not the case anymore because this movement is happening....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Taoiseach delivered a strong speech to an international audience in Belém last week, yet back home today, the Climate Change Advisory Council concluded Ireland would overshoot its first carbon budget by 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. The report has really highlighted Ireland's addiction to fossil fuels as a key reason the carbon budget will not be met. This Saturday,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I know the Department of housing has a huge amount on its plate in addressing the housing crisis but to be honest, it has always been very clear to me that updating these planning guidelines to make developers provide appropriate crèche facilities in new estates has never been a priority for the Department. In the last Government, I got plenty of excuses about why the Department had not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 87. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement she and her officials have had in 2025 with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with respect to changing or improving planning rules to ensure delivery of childcare facilities in housing developments; the progress she can report on this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61618/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: One of the most infuriating experiences parents desperate to get a childcare place for their kid have is to be told the building designated as a creche on the plans they bought their new home from actually is not going to be a creche. They are told it has been too expensive to fit out, it is because the developer wants to rezone it as a house and sell it as such or, most infuriatingly of...

Cost of Motoring: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am pleased to be able to speak about how we could solve some of the very real impacts of high costs for motorists. In the couple of minutes I have, I want to focus on how drivers are being ripped off on the issue of insurance. For many years, reform of insurance, particularly motor insurance, has been promised but in the end, each time, this caves in to the same vested interests. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am really struck listening to Mr. Cummins speak about the success and benefits the Waterford greenway has brought to a range of communities and then hearing the real anger from people regarding how they have been treated by TII. There does seem to be general consensus that people are not against greenways in general but the issue is the process and particularly the CPO hanging over people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It was about the code of conduct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Was CPO used in the end?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Those litigants-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It was not their direct land.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Mr. Cummins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will turn to the witnesses from the National Greenway Action Association. While I recognise that the land situation is different, is the sort of process that seems to have worked well in Waterford, where there is a process with some element of arbitration and a charter that sets out landowners’ rights, and trying to develop that on a greenway-by-greenway basis something they think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Mr. O'Connor began his contribution by highlighting that there is general support for the concept of greenways. This is important. Significant capital has been allocated to the programme, some €60 million per year. Hopefully, that will not get cut but, rather, will remain and, potentially, grow in future. We know many rural towns and villages could benefit from the boost in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (6 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 98. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps the Government plans to take to support the move to reusable cups to reduce waste from disposable coffee cups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60476/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (6 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the changes that will be made to the terms of Repak’s new licence to operate as an approved body for packaging waste recovery, following the EPA statement in September that it was “almost certain” that Ireland will miss mandatory recycling targets in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (6 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the National Energy Affordability Taskforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (6 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the Government proposes to fulfil its pledge in the programme for Government to invest in waste sorting technology following the EPA statement in September that it was “almost certain” that Ireland will miss mandatory recycling targets in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60475/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (6 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current balance of the circular economy fund, and the proposals his Department is bringing forward to use that fund to boost levels of recycling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60473/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (6 Nov 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the business case made by An Post to Ministers and NewERA to increase the pension payment from the An Post main superannuation scheme will be approved in time for the agreed increases and arrears to be paid before Christmas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60758/25]