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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. I find it staggering that there is no regulation of district heating because it is not new. We have had district heating systems for decades, going back to social housing schemes. Dr. McGowan is saying that it is clearly not the role of the CRU, which has not been given the powers to regulate. That is something that the Oireachtas should pick up because it seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am just thinking aloud now but perhaps there is something the committee could do in liaising with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health to get that message through to the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy Cronin. Senator Higgins is joining us from her office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: I ask Senator Higgins to let Ms MacEvilly finish.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Dr. McGowan wants to speak. I am conscious of time. Other members want to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: The Senator might hold the question until the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins. I will come back to her in a few minutes. I call Senator Boylan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Many of those are managed by local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: I will ask a question that is not really on the agenda but the timing of the meeting, coming the day after the energy security review was published, is excellent. Have the witnesses anything to say on it? Would they rather not say anything on the energy security review? I am sure they were consulted in the process of putting it together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Very good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins. That is all for today. I thank our guests today for coming in again so soon after they appeared before the committee just a few weeks ago. Hopefully it will be more than a few weeks before we have them in again. I will adjourn the meeting now until our next private session, which will be later in the week at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, 22 September 2022.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to develop green hydrogen storage facilities and infrastructure to support the green hydrogen economy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45765/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (20 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the outcomes of the recent North Seas Energy Cooperation meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45766/22]

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: In a functioning planning system, despite our misgivings and frustrations with decisions, we lean on the integrity of the system. That integrity assures us that while we may disagree with the decision, it was made in good faith, with total objectivity, cognisant of all the arguments by all the stakeholders, and employing expertise and knowledge greater than our own. In a functioning system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: The association is getting at an issue of fairness, which is the right thing to do but is it not true that all farmers are subject to the nitrates action plan, when it is not all farmers who are contributing to the reason we have the nitrates action plan? What if I were a farmer who did not have an intensive set-up but who was being required to fulfil the needs of the action plan because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Would the association agree the problem is largely caused by a small number of farmers in a particular part of the country where the very intensive farming is and that in most of the country, where Mr. Enright says the water quality is good, farmers are subject to the nitrates action programme even though they are not the cause of the deteriorated quality in the south and east particularly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: On organic farming, it seems to me the challenge is farmers getting a fair price for their produce. The model in the last number of years has been the low-margin, high-volume one and that is intensive farming. There is an alternative model in the organic one. It is higher-margin and low-volume. Is this not the critical point? We want farmers to produce food. We want farmers to have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Okay. I thank our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Brian Leddin: Would the association agree Bord Bia probably is not marketing the product well enough? It is getting going but is it not part of the problem that the organic product is not being marketed?