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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Deputy Naughten's Department is going to be very busy after all this. It seems we might have to have his officials back again. This has been a very interesting meeting, although it has also been somewhat depressing. The initial submission read very well but it is actually a work of fiction. It reads as if this is fantastic but, when one gets down to it, that is not what emerges. I will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: What is the global figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: What is the Department's role in respect of local authorities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Basically what Mr. McCarthy is saying is that his Department would have no role in the matter if local authorities wanted to appoint an information officer for renewable energy or do something similar. It has no role in that regard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: I could encourage local authorities to be creative and progressive too but that means nothing. Does the Department have no role in the matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Yes. It was mentioned by a number of members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Does Mr. McCarthy have a role in the matter? That is what I am asking him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Can one Department not look at it with another Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: We have to tell them to look at it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: I asked a question about offshore wind and another on the 63% capital spending.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Non-Exchequer funding will account for 67% of capital spending on climate change measures. Where will the remaining 37% come from and how will it be spent? Maybe that is not relevant to Mr. McCarthy, either. Could he answer the question on offshore wind farms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: When did the Department ask for legal advice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: This has been going on for about five years. Deputy Enda Kenny answered questions about it years ago in the Dáil when he was Taoiseach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Could Mr. McCarthy outline what the issues are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: We cannot ask what the issues are that have been the subject of the legal advice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: I do not know how it could take a number of years to arrive at that conclusion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: One of the questions I asked earlier relating to Part L of the planning regulations was not answered. The officials outlined previously that they have been in gestation for ten years. It has been well flagged that these are happening. On examination of Donegal County Council's planning website yesterday, out of nine applications covering 11 houses, ten of those were for being in breach of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: That is more shocking than I thought.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: They do not need fires either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Those with fireplaces in their houses can still comply with all the regulations. They can build a Part B-----