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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I have a question regarding the modelling and the gap of 0.9 megatonnes in transport. There was a study earlier this year or late last year by researchers in University College Cork, UCC, showing that nearly 40% of our transport emissions are caused by private car journeys in the 0 km to 8 km range. Many of these are commutes, school runs, trips to the shops, mass and so on. Within that 0...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Lennon. It is about more than the 0.9 megatonnes gap. A lot of the journeys we envisage being made by the 845,000 EVs could be made by even more sustainable modes. The potential in this regard is vast. I am not saying it is necessarily straightforward. We have to build the networks in all our villages, towns and cities in order that people can feel safe getting onto a bike,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Martin. I have a few more questions. Reference was made to EV uptake in a Dublin, with mention of a scheme in Hackney, London. I reiterate Senator Pauline O'Reilly's point that our city centres are where we do not want to see EVs being used, because there are other ways of getting around there. We should not be seeing it as a target or ambition that everybody living in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: We may invite officials from the Department of Finance to discuss that. I thank the witnesses for their answers and apologise to colleagues for taking more than my allocated time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: We will go into the second round. Deputy Smith has indicated she will go ahead of Deputy O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy Smith. I believe the first part of her question was for Ms Egan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Does the Department accept that it is an energy-driven area? Is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine looking at anaerobic digestion with regard to the displacement of livestock for feedstock as part of its push towards 22% or 30%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: That is fair enough. I think Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan and I are on the same page. There are beef farmers in particular whose incomes are exceptionally low, who are struggling and who are very much dependent on subsidies. Is there an economic way forward for them so that instead of producing beef, they would produce the feedstock for anaerobic digestion? The benefit would obviously be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: If it is okay, I will bring you back in in a few minutes because Deputy Whitmore needs to chair another committee in ten minutes' time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the witnesses for the replies. Is the Department is committed to demand management, reduction and the avoid, shift and improve principle? That is really about electric vehicles where there is no other way of providing the transport needs of the population. If the Department is committed to this, it would have a much larger target either for the vehicles powered by fossil fuels or a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sectoral Emissions Ceilings: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Okay. Mr. Kierans, you are in the hot seat.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Chairman and thank Senator Buttimer for letting me in. I wish to pick up on an issue raised by what Deputy Catherine Murphy described about the Sallins bypass and the knock-on effect with the issue in Clane. It proves that when we build these roads and bypasses, they just beget more roads and more bypasses, so we need to think differently about transport. I welcome the NTA's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations to promote renovation over demolition and reconstruction of buildings to ensure that embodied carbon emissions are reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33194/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (23 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking in relation to Ireland’s contribution to the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative to connect the European Green Deal with our living spaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33195/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: How we have appraised infrastructure projects historically has not been appropriate because we have done so in a very narrow way and applied a short-term view. We often do not take the wider and longer-term benefits of infrastructure into account and we have got it wrong time and again. Projects such as the western rail corridor will not add up if we look at them through a narrow lens....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I reiterate the concern expressed by my colleague, Deputy Matthews, and, perhaps, reinforced by the Minister. The NRA is still referenced in legislation. Perhaps we should look at changing the term because we think about transport in a much more holistic sense now and primary legislation should reflect this. On the general grouping of amendments, the thrust is to give the TII power to...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: That is fair enough. It is important it is not prescriptive because there is the issue of noise as well. I am aware of a situation - as the Chairman will be as it is near his home - in Castletroy where the motorway is nearby and it is very noisy. It might make sense that at certain times you could slow the traffic down to reduce the noise, such as at night-time when people are more...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: The Minister may have just answered it but for clarity, when I looked at this it seemed that it omits the potential for cargo bikes. There has been a huge uptake of such bikes in Dublin. Dublin City Council has led a very positive initiative around last-mile delivery and there are hubs all over the city. We will probably see that in every city and large town in Ireland in time as it...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: Following on from the concerns the Chair expressed, even having this on the Statute Book as an offence is a significant deterrent to supply of PPTs to people under 16. By taking out the section, that deterrent is gone. It essentially sounds like turning a blind eye to it. I am, therefore, quite concerned that the effect of this is essentially to give licence to people to provide PPTs to...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am not pressing the amendment but there is evidence that many of these conveyances are being used by very young people in a dangerous fashion and are being supplied by parents, guardians or older friends. It makes sense to me that it would be an offence to supply such a vehicle to younger people for real reasons of safety, notwithstanding that it may be something that is very difficult to...