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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: The Senator has used her five minutes. I must be fair to other members and I will let the Senator in again if we have time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I will let the Senator back in after the witnesses have answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Goodwin. There were questions on the green hydrogen strategy and certification as well. I call Dr. Carton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Okay. Does Senator Higgins want to briefly ask a question on behalf of Deputy Whitmore?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I advise the Senator it is ESB generation and trading who are represented today so I do not think Mr. Dollard can address that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I have a question on green hydrogen. I welcome the witnesses' comments. I think there is a risk with green hydrogen that we couple it with gas. The witnesses made a good point, that coal is a huge challenge here. I can see the temptation to inject green hydrogen into our national gas network. Maybe the witnesses are thinking about doing that with a conventional gas power plant. The risk...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: It will be a mix of gas and hydrogen use.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Could you be as quick as you can, Mr. Dollard? We have limited time at this point. We have just over half an hour.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: It is to be hoped the world will not end in 2030.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: That is a very interesting question. Senator McGahon is probably referring to the capacity in the system. Do we need to look outside Ireland for the expertise to fill the positions that Mr. Cunniffe says are necessary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: In terms of the likes of An Bord Pleanála, the Department, and the State agencies, is Mr. Cunniffe saying that the existing resources simply are not capable of delivering the decisions that need to be delivered if we are to meet the targets that we have set ourselves? Where do those people come from? It sounds like we probably need to be looking overseas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I call Senator Boylan, who has been waiting for a while.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I call Deputy Cronin, who is also waiting patiently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: There was a question on the Atlantic storms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I call Senator Pauline O'Reilly, who has returned to her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I wish to broach a subject before we finish up. The committee agreed that we would have this session. It is the first of a series of sessions that will lead to the publication of a report. We are very much thinking of the urgency of climate action and the need to create a clean energy system as quickly as possible. That is the focus of this committee. Everybody is very hard-working and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: I think it is about having no regrets and it is also recognising the emergency in climate as much as energy security. I am thinking out loud but we are in a wartime situation and effectively in these kinds of situations things that ordinarily happen slowly and methodically actually happen quite quickly and they have to. We in the political system across Europe need to think carefully about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Dr. Kaufmann. It is very encouraging to us to hear the level of enthusiasm you have expressed for co-operation between our two countries. I know you may not be able to stay with us for much longer, so we thank you for taking time out of your stay in South Africa to join us. I turn now to Mr. Daly. Mr. Daly, will you make your opening statement, please, on behalf of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy - Ambition and Challenges: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Mr. Daly. Ms Dempsey, you are to give us an opening statement also.
- Town Centre First Policy: Statements (24 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State and his team for the work they have done to develop Town Centre First. It is a very good policy and is going to be critical in driving development across Ireland for many decades to come. It is going to be a very positive and sustainable development. I am minded to think of Éamon de Valera's words from 1943 in his famous speech, the "comely maidens...