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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Three issues emerge through the presentations. One is the notion of targets in primary and secondary legislation. Mr. Stevenson said this was an annual target. There are suggestions here of sectoral road maps and targets of five to seven years. Can Mr. Stevenson comment on the political and operational challenges in that? Head six refers to the national expert advisory body. There has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: I thank Mr. Walker for his submission. I am director of the Abbey Theatre, which is a member of IBEC, although our representative is not on the energy committee. I had better outline that in case some wily journalist reveals that. Mr. Walker states clearly in his submission: "For the avoidance of doubt, such a body must not be modelled on the UK's committee on climate change whose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: I refer to the perceived potential conflict between our current model of economic growth, which also includes the Food Harvest 2020 strategy, and the notion that we must reach targets? IBEC opposes the insertion of targets in the Bill but we are considering long-term targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: I am making an inference. This is not a criticism of IBEC. There is a potential conflict between our current economic growth model, which also includes the Food Harvest 2020 strategy, and the insertion of targets in the Bill. Does Mr. Walker see that as a conflict? Last week, Dr. Brian Ó Gallachóir of UCC made a presentation to the committee on low carbon emissions. He had a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: What is IBEC's view on the policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Should responsibility for this, therefore, transfer to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: What is the ideal model of accountability for delivering policy if the UK's is not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: What are those lessons?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Does IBEC broadly agree with the composition of the expert advisory group under the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government under the draft heads?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Should it not be separate from the meeting with the IFA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Is the witness saying it is a false argument that we should increase our food productivity domestically because it offsets, supports or strengthens food security?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: So there is no sense that this trade-off could happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Professor Kirby, who appeared before the committee last week, suggested that there be a technical advisory group to support this group. Is the witness suggesting that these experts would be available to the advisory group, that they could be called? What does she think is their role? If they are not to be ex officio, does she think they should have a role at all in this advisory body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Does Ms Kirrane think that the obligation regarding each Department is clear in the heads of the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: I thank the witnesses for the presentation and I apologise for arriving late. One question arising from Deputy Nash's question is whether Trócaire is against the use of the four figures as stipulated in head 6 as ex officio members. Are the witnesses clearly stating that these figures, including the director general of the agency, should not be a part of the expert committee? I get a...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: The final lap.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fearaim fáilte romhat chuig an Seanad a Aire Stáit áit go bhfuil aithne mhaith agat air, do shean Teach. It has been a great honour and a privilege for me, as director of the Abbey Theatre, to have been nominated by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, to Seanad Éireann. It has been an enormous privilege and a responsibility. Every day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (2 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: That is short-term. Will it be an issue beyond 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (2 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: I have a supplementary question. I do not know if Dr. Ó Gallachóir heard Professor Kirby's response to the heads of the Bill and how aware Dr. Ó Gallachóir is of the Bill. I would like to hear Dr. Ó Gallachóir's view on the matter, particularly as he has examined agriculture's energy and natural resources. What is the natural Department to hold responsibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (2 Jul 2013)

Fiach MacConghail: I thank Dr. Ó Gallachóir for his presentation. As we proceed, it will be difficult to avoid a conflict between the energy and agriculture sectors. Dr. Ó Gallachóir put it mildly when he stated that there is a contradiction between Food Harvest 2020 and the targets we have set ourselves in terms of reducing emissions. I wish to tease out the position regarding what he...