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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: We will now hear from Deputy O'Rourke, who is also joining us from his office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. McGreal, Mr. McLoughlin and Deputy Bruton for that. As no other members are indicating, I will suspend the meeting until 12.30 p.m., when we will have guests from the Rediscovery Centre and Community Resources Network Ireland in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan for occupying the Chair for the past while.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: What we might do is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: We might come back to Senator Higgins as there is quite a lot in what she has said. We might go to Ms Downey first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Downey. Does Ms Lavelle wish to come in on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Kavanagh. If Senator Higgins does not mind, I want to give the guests an opportunity if they want to send in anything additional to what they have said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Lavelle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins. I will go back to our guests, but I have been called away and do not have somebody to replace me in the Chair. I will go back to our guests to respond and then we will finish the meeting. Does anybody want to take the Senator's questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins. We will finish the meeting now, but if our guests want to write to us with further detail - we are going to be doing quite a significant report on the circular economy - we would welcome any further contributions they might want to make. We will take them on board in our deliberations around that report and ultimately the recommendations that will go to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I welcome our guests. I am going to talk about the Shannon pipeline. We have discussed this in a private meeting before, but I would like to address the issue in public. I put on record my deep concern that colleagues from the mid-west are not in attendance to discuss what is a very important issue for our region. Whether you are in Clare, Limerick or Tipperary, you should be very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: Before Mr. Gleeson does, what I am trying to get at here is I think that is a very strong reason to build it. No reasonable person would say do not build it if the supply to 1 million-plus people is going to affected. It is the population growth argument I have an issue with, because we are meant to be balancing population growth in the country. We are meant to be accelerating the growth...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: The concern is that it would suppress growth in Limerick and the mid-west in the years and decades to come.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: Some 25 years is a very short time. We should really be looking at a 100 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: That is 50% by 2040. I am conscious of time. The Chair has been very generous. What are the figures for 2016, 2080 or 2100? We have to think about the resources we need for that kind of growth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator O'Reilly. Is that for the Department of the environment?