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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether a land use strategy is being developed within which aspirations for forestry, the protection of biodiversity, climate, renewables and the bioeconomy could be evolved in a coherent manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34169/23]

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...a viable living in the traditional way of life, with money coming not only from production of high quality food but also from the way in which they manage the resource at their disposal, most notably land. That is the gap and it is emphasised time and again in this House that our approach to the key sectors is far too diverse. I believe seven Departments and 23 public bodies each has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: I agree with the Minister. Some of the deployment of these technologies is proving very effective. The big bombshell in the report was on the land use front. The flexibility that had been available to us of 26 million tonnes have dropped to 9 million tonnes as a result of a reassessment of the impact of land use on emissions. Land use, even with the 8,000 ha of forestry planting and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: Does the Minister agree that if we read the climate action plan we see tremendous uncertainty on land use? We are speaking about a likely target of 11 million tonnes of emissions in 2030 and a 66% reduction in prospect. This is the target the EU suggests. Where are the policy tools that could conceivably explain to communities how such a 66% reduction could be achieved? Are we creating...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: There is a worrying trend in this House to see embracing sustainability and the climate challenge as a conspiracy somehow hatched in Dublin against the future of rural Ireland. The truth is exactly the opposite. It is those who seek to cling to practices and institutions that do not have a future who will lead their communities in the wrong direction. What I like about the vision for...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...debate and the Minister's assurances. He made important points, the first of which was that this situation was evolving and he had already gained significant flexibilities. The second was that Ireland was not tied into plans or targets developed at a single point in time. That was one of the fears held by people who read the detail of some of these targets. The third point, and one the...

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...of that is that there is a high risk of disillusionment, especially when people do not clearly understand the nature of the challenges here. We need to be more careful in how we approach this. Land use is a good case in point. The intention of the Government, as I understand it, is to halve the impact of land use on emissions. The reality, however, is that we have just discovered that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: 72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the review of land use currently under way; the key findings of the work to date; and the implications for future policy development. [25194/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (11 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...of the change of expectations. We are now trying to deliver a 51% reduction in emissions, for example. That is much more ambitious than what we had previously. We need to embrace changes in land use, which will be a major challenge for farmers and others if we do not have significant investment programmes to back it up. The Department needs to think more fundamentally about what is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a land use strategy is being developed within which aspirations for forestry, for the protection of biodiversity, for climate, for Renewables and for the bioeconomy could be evolved in a coherent manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18544/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...is we now face a need to make urgent change so the issue is how can we make progress. I hear, from both sides, the ideal solution. On one side, farmers want 100% compensation for the loss in land value and 100% compensation for the income loss. I can understand why such a case can be made. I also understand that the data gaps make it really difficult to impose a binding categorisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...of where we are. I know that from the climate plan, the first year of the five-year period, 2021, was below what was predicted, obviously for unusual reasons. What is the sense of where 2022 will land compared with the sort of pathway that was spelled out in the plan? It looks like about 11 point something or other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: There is then one on restoring 60 ha of blanket bog and the land map. There was another one on publishing measures to restore a further 116 ha of blanket bog. What is the significance of these delays? The central context for this whether the Minister believes we are on track to hit the 2025 target, which is down to 20 tonnes from agriculture. Perhaps I will come back to land use after...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...significant way of creating an income stream for farmers that is not just from their excellent food production, but also from their excellent environmental management. Finally, where are we on land use? The 50% cut in land use emissions could have a huge washback on the other sectors if it proves to be as daunting as it now appears. Where are we on thinking about land use targets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...soil? The committee had hearings where at least one person presenting said that across 400,000 ha., 10 million tonnes of carbon emissions were generated. It is a relatively small part of our land base but it is generating a massive proportion of our emissions, properly classified under land use. The target is to drain 30,000 of those by 2025 and 80,000 ultimately. That seems low. Are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Small and Medium Enterprises: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...Chambers both saying that this is a deficit and a time scarcity for a lot of these leaders, do we have the capability to deliver management development programmes? I am aware that Enterprise Ireland has mega-programmes that are Stanford based and so on, but they are for very small numbers of people and not on the scale I believe the witnesses are envisaging here. I would be interested to...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...why it happened and the Minister doing the best he or she can to explain. We need an effective governance model if the targets are to become real. I would be interested in the progress on the land use research. The research the Department did last year dramatically changed our picture. We thought land use was generating approximately 4.8 million tonnes and now it is heading for 11...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Richard Bruton: On land use, the Minister has not set a definitive target and the measure of land use change seems to have dramatically increased. We are heading on an unchanged policy to, I think, 11 million tonnes of emissions from land use. Will there be a washback on to the other sectors if it proves that we cannot deliver? The EU has talked of us having a target of 3.7 million tonnes for 2030, which...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...I have to say to my colleague, Deputy Shanahan, that I think the reaction to this investment is hysterical and has not taken into account the genuine climate crisis that we are facing here. Our land use in forestry, instead of being a source of sequestration, is actually emitting 7 million tonnes, which is more than 10% of all of our emissions, and that is going to rise in the coming...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...virtual, including energy, transport, water, health, communications, media, data processing, storage, aerospace, defence, electoral or financial infrastructure and sensitive facilities, as well as land and real estate crucial to the use of these infrastructure.". That is only one of the elements. It seems an awful lot of investment could in some way encapsulate an element of that...