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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I welcome Senator Pippa Hackett who is the Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity. It is a real privilege for us that she is with us and will engage with these young people. I call on her to say a few words.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: On behalf of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action, I welcome you all to the Chamber and thank you for taking the time to engage with us on this very important topic. I also welcome those in the Gallery to the Chamber. By way of introduction, my name is Brian Leddin and I am a Green Party Deputy. I was elected to the Dáil in 2020 and I have been Chair of this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: The next speaker is Ms Ruth Cunningham.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: The next speaker is Mr. Kumayl Mustafa from Cork city.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Mustafa. I now call on Mr. Dariusz Konefal from County Longford.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Dariusz. I now call Ms Julie Murphy from County Clare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Go raibh maith agat, Julie. I will now move to the participants from Foróige. The first is Ms Mary Osubor Kennedy who has come up from Cork.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Osubor-Kennedy. Now, from the opposite end of the country, from Donegal, we have Mr. Finlay Thomson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms O'Brien. We will now proceed to Ms Sarah Aitken, from Bohola, County Mayo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Aitken for her words. A number of Members of the European Parliament were listening for the past while. I did not realise it until they were stepping out but I believe it is really significant that they heard what the delegates had to say. For our next speaker, we are staying in Mayo but going offshore, to Clare Island. I welcome Ms Maude Cullen-Mouze.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Cullen-Mouze for those words. Our next participant is Ms Mae Weir, who is all the way from Dromahair in County Leitrim.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Weir for her contribution. As hers was the final contribution this morning, I thank all of those who participated and shared their very interesting and inspiring thoughts with us. I was listening intently and have taken many notes, and my colleagues have done the same. We are going to digest those thoughts in the next 15 minutes. We will suspend and resume in 15 minutes for a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Welcome back all. I will open the floor to members of the committee for their observations and questions. If our young people want to come in on any particular question, they can raise their hand and I will bring them in one by one. The first on my list to speak is Deputy O'Rourke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Deputy. We usually get agreement in meetings from the members that they will limit their contributions to two minutes. Deputy O' Rouke is always bang on two minutes and I thank him. We will take two more contributions from members and then revert to our young people. If any one of them wants to indicate that they would like to respond to any of the points made, they should...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: The two-minute rule has obviously been blown out of the water.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: A person who needs no introduction to the two-minute rule is Senator Higgins, who is up next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: If any of our guests wishes to respond to those three contributions, they are more than welcome to do so now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: Well said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: It is a question many of us may ask ourselves each day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on Climate Challenges: Discussion with Foróige and Comhairle na nÓg (3 Jun 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy Cronin. Ms O'Brien indicated she wanted to come back on the question that was asked of Foróige specifically.