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- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Six months.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: False.
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I very much agree with Deputy McAuliffe who spoke before Deputy Nolan. The thrust of this amendment actually chimes with some of the points the Rural Independent Group was making. It is not so much that is very much in favour of electric vehicles but that it is about broadening the remit of the zero-emission-vehicle office to other forms of electric mobility. That would be positive. The...
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 54, line 11, after “importance” to insert the following: “and is primarily for the purposes of providing public transport or active (walking or cycling) transport infrastructure, only where the scheme or proposed road development will not contribute to carbon emissions from the transport sector and only where the scheme or proposed road...
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I move amendment No. 1: In page 52, line 11, after “fixed” to insert “and mobile”. This is a straightforward amendment to make this part of the legislation less prescriptive. My suggestion is to include the words "and mobile" after "fixed", so that it captures the possibility that cameras and closed-circuit television, CCTV, can be mounted on buses, etc....
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 53, line 37, to delete “and refuelling infrastructure”. I will take all these together. Amendments Nos. 2 and 10 to 16, inclusive, are about clarifying the legislation around zero-emission vehicles. The existing draft goes some way to explaining what a zero-emission vehicle is, but it does not go far enough. The Minister is on the record...
- Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Yes. My contribution captured all of them.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Yesterday, the Government published its summary report on the sectoral emissions ceilings for the two carbon budgets that have been agreed through to 2030. It is clear we have a huge challenge ahead of us in all sectors but I want to speak about transport. The climate action plan has a transport section and there is some really good stuff in it in terms of getting more people onto public...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Whitmore. The purpose of today's meeting is to engage with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, in the committee's role as oversight of the regulator's work. On behalf of the committee I would like to welcome the following representatives from the CRU: Ms Aoife MacEvilly, chairperson; Dr. Paul McGowan; Mr. John Melvin; who are all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms MacEvilly for her opening statement. I ask members to indicate, if they have not done so already, if they wish to ask questions. I propose that members have two minutes each to ask questions in the first round. We will have a second and third round as necessary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am going to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: It was answered with the previous question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy O'Rourke. I call Deputy O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: I will pick up on that question. Is the Deputy saying there should be State support for these institutions to install backup power? I am hearing from the answers that there is no barrier to an institution doing it, but that was not the question I heard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Is Dr. McGowan's answer that you do not disagree but it is not the commission's role necessarily, and that there is no regulatory barrier?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Are those hundreds of megawatts at grid level as opposed to building level or upstream of the meter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: We will get to Senator Dooley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Bríd Smith is next. Is Deputy Bruton finished?