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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Will the agreement last three years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Will that primarily be research and have we reached the point where we can talk about ramping up output?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank the witnesses for their insight. I commend Bord na Móna for going into a very difficult space and we need to see that leadership across the State. Well done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Chair for letting me back in. I have a quick question but the representatives can take as long as they need to answer it. Are they aware of illegal extraction taking place on Bord na Móna bogs? If they aware of it, are they doing anything about it? What can be done about it? If others see illegal extraction happening on Bord na Móna lands, what can they do about it?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticultural Peat Supply and Willow Scheme: Bord na Móna (23 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Of course. I appreciate that answer. If people in the community are aware of illegal extraction, is Bord na Móna the first port of call or is there any other way they can notify the authorities about that? Is it the local authority? Is it a planning issue?
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: At the weekend, I found myself on the ferry back from Cherbourg, France, to Rosslare. I was returning from a series of meetings in Paris at which the challenges of the current crises, relating to energy, food security, refugees and the strategic autonomy of the European Union, were discussed in depth. While those discussions were heavy and solemn, it was not until I boarded that ferry and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Today the committee continues its series of sessions on energy broadly, the wider ambition we have and the potential, opportunity and challenges we have in the area. We are thinking bigger than our domestic opportunity but also the international dimension. Today we will discuss offshore wind, floating and fixed, east coast and west, and the supply chain and logistics development as well as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Keating for his statement. This part of the meeting is confined to one hour, so I propose that each member of the committee takes two minutes to address questions to the witnesses. That will ensure we get through all the questions. We may then have time for a second and third round of questions. When we talk about the west coast offshore potential, we are really talking...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I was about to say that Senator Pauline O'Reilly will be making a video for her social media channels on the back of this. Deputy Cronin is joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: If we find ourselves in that scenario of catastrophic climate change, all bets are off and we will be in a very different position. Hopefully, we do act quickly enough to forestall that possibility. We do not want to find ourselves in that position. The next speaker is Deputy Bríd Smith. I ask her to confirm that she is in her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: My colleague, Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan, is unable to attend and has sent his apologies. The Deputy takes a very keen interest in offshore issues. He would like to know if Shannon Foynes Port Company is aware of any impediment to Irish fishers registering their vessels to take part and assist in the construction and maintenance of offshore floating wind farms and, if such impediment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Keating and Mr. Hallissey for their contributions, which were incredibly interesting. They have outlined to us the opportunities that are there but also what needs to be done to achieve them. The committee will draft a report in the coming weeks and will be keen to ensure that those points are included in it. I propose to suspend the meeting for a couple of minutes to allow...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: On behalf of the committee, I welcome our witnesses. Some are new faces and some have been here a few times. From the Irish Energy Storage Association, we have: Mr. Paddy Phelan, president; Mr. Eugene Coughlan, former deputy commissioner at the Commission for Regulation of Utilities; and Mr. Frank Burke, technical adviser, who is joining us online. They are very welcome. From Energy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you. I invite Mr. Smith to make his statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you. I invite Dr. Finn to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Foley for his statement and for accelerating its delivery to leave more time for questions. I will now invite members to ask questions. If witnesses want to respond to a question that is not directly addressed to them, please indicate thus and I will bring them in. While the clerk to the committee is putting together the list of speakers, I will kick off the question and answer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I am hearing that they are very complementary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Just on the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I want to ask about how the market needs to be adjusted to support both. I will let the energy storage guys back in on that as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenge: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Does Mr. Finn want to answer on latent capacity in the system and on data centres?