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- Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: I ask the Senator to await the Minister of State's reply to amendment No. 7.
- Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: Since there are no more contributions, we will move on. The question is that section 8 stand part of the Bill. Is that agreed?
- Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: Sorry. I asked whether anyone else wanted to contribute but no one registered a desire to do so. I am not stopping the Minister of State from-----
- Seanad: Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: Of course.
- Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (16 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: I call the Acting Leader.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: I call for a debate on cross-Border tourism. The reason I do so is the work done by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, SDLP, in the Newry, Mourne and Down regions. In particular, my good friend Mr. Killian Feehan, who I met last week, outlined the work the SDLP is doing in advocating and promoting the inclusion of counties Armagh and Down in Ireland's Ancient East. A unanimous motion...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: I am so sorry for coming in so late. The danger when you come in at the end is that you will ask questions that have already been asked. It is great to see Mr. Ó Brolcháin here. He would have been in the Seanad with Mark Dearey, who is a good friend of mine in Dundalk.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: It is low-hanging fruit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: That is interesting. I have just finished a biography of Napoleon so it is funny that Mr. Ó Brolcháin mentioned him. If I was not in politics I would love to be a historian.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: What is key about what Mr. Ó Brolcháin said is the fact that it is low-hanging fruit. If we want to get towards our 2030 targets, which are seven or eight years away, we have to look at all of that low-hanging fruit across every sector of Irish society and go for it full throttle. Sometimes we can get lost in the long-term vision of what we have to do, rather than what we can do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Sequestration and Land Management-Nature Restoration: Discussion (15 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: I hope he is enjoying being back. When we look at a peatlands strategy, does Mr. Ó Brolcháin feel the Government is putting proper emphasis and support behind this or what is his view on where we are going with it?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, for taking this Commencement matter. I am sure we will all agree that the issue of our time is the energy transition necessary to balance climate change, sea level rise and the pace of change required to reach net zero by 2050. For political leaders who are continuing to legislate for these changes, we must maintain the support of the...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: That is excellent. The whole point I am bringing forward is to get the Government thinking about this technology. I am pleased to see it is willing to do that. The Minister of State has come to the House to say it is not accessible as of today but, as we progress along our climate action targets for the rest of the decade and beyond, it will become more feasible. It is very important,...
- Seanad: Transport: Motion (9 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)
John McGahon: Before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, 46 Irish citizens were studying in university in Ukraine, all of them studying medicine. Naturally, when the war broke out, they all came back to Ireland. One of the provisions introduced by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, quite rightly, was that, because there simply was not space for...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)
John McGahon: I would like to ask for a debate on Irish Water at some stage, hopefully between now and Christmas. I ask for this because of the quality of water in my town of Dundalk, a town of 42,000 people, over the past 18 months. Undoubtedly, Irish Water is very good at communicating with Oireachtas Members and councillors. We all get emails and updates every day. I cannot fault its level of...
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Oct 2022)
John McGahon: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?
- Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (26 Oct 2022)
John McGahon: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)
John McGahon: Senators Kyne, Buttimer and Ahearn wish to share time. Is that agreed? Agreed.