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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: Talamh Beo is great but it is very small. How do we get an inclusive dialogue with a very small subset of the community? Are there successes in other countries in dialogue at national level that gives people in communities at the lowest level an opportunity to feed into it and, ultimately, get a consensus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: That is just one example. It is across all sectors and communities. I guess that is why we are here today. The representatives have given us very good answers but we have to figure out what that talk looks like. What is the right way of doing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: I will give the last word to Ms Kelliher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: Does it make sense for the Government to take its cue from the public participation network, PPN, as to how that should look? Should the PPN propose what the dialogue should be in the first instance, acknowledging that it is iterative and needs to evolve, rather than Government saying it will talk now and asking the PPN to tell us what it thinks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: As the PPN develops a few steps with investment, resources and so on, it may become that but it is not there yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: That is only the people in Clare.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: We have to finish at 2 p.m. I ask you to be very brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: The committee would certainly welcome that. We are going to write and publish a report in the next few months on climate action at community level. Mr. Stanley's network should have a strong voice in that, but we have to be mindful of the question of time. I know it would be difficult to get all of the people and groups together, consolidate the various views and come up with a consensus...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Irish Experience of Community-led Climate Action: Public Participation Networks (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: Yes. That point was well made. We will try to capture the essence of this meeting in the report. If the witnesses wish to reiterate or reinforce any point in a written submission to us, we would appreciate anything they give us. I thank the witnesses for attending. We appreciate their time, effort and expertise. It has been an engaging and thought-provoking session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am delighted you have talked to Limerick in your slot. It is a nice segue for me to talk about Limerick as well. It kind of feels as though we are back in the council chamber in Merchant's Quay. I have to say it is not a bad feeling. It is good to see the representatives from Limerick City and County Council here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: I feel like calling them Caroline, Gordon and Pat. Forgive me if I slip. Limerick and Waterford are my favourite Munster cities. Thus, the local authority representatives are very welcome here today. I congratulate both local authorities on the work they are doing. I am more familiar with Limerick. Other members have alluded to the great work on the acquisition of derelict and vacant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: I will not forget east Limerick. We will bring the trains to east Limerick eventually-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: ------but we have good infrastructure in west Limerick which we will open up again. I wish to speak about the potential and what the local authority can do to embrace the dormant infrastructure. Incredibly good work has been done. I have worked with my colleagues, Mr. Seán Hartigan and Ms Saša Novak, in the process of putting together the city and county development plan. All...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Brian Leddin: We should be looking at a 2027 timeframe. The LDA plan 2026 is the target. In the context of the Ryder Cup coming to Limerick, we should probably talk about connecting Shannon Airport to the network. Let us start thinking that way. The airport is in County Clare but I would love if Limerick said to County Clare that connecting the airport was very important and that it was about the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for the answer. I am happy to hear him expand on the vision for rail freight and for rail in general. It is a very coherent and important vision for us to follow. It chimes incredibly well with the policy agenda and ambition of the Government. It is generally shared these days across the political spectrum. I was happy to hear the Minister mention the potential of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: It seems to me that we are on the cusp of changing how we do transport in this country. For 60 years, the rail system has been starved of investment. Unlike other countries, Ireland did not see a future for rail. It perceived that the future would involve a transport system based on private cars and, to some extent, city and intercity buses. In recent years, the Government has invested...

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I would have been happy to give Deputy Bruton more time to expand on that point, if he needed it. I am glad he referred to data centres and the simplistic narratives we hear about them. I heard many of them while following the debate in my office, although they were not made by anybody in the Chamber now. On the idea that we have failed to develop offshore wind, while I agree we have...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Transport Policy (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that his Department is taking to complement the local government provision of local infrastructure and connectivity enabling sustainable travel, such as public transport, cycling and walking with sustainable travel infrastructure on IDA land banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53875/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: 92. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the progress of establishing town teams under the Town Centres First Initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53868/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Recycling Policy (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: 123. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the progress of the pilot Bike and E-Bike Upcycling Initiative; if she is considering extending the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53856/22]