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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My first question is for the NTA. One of the key strategic objectives in terms of trying to reduce our emissions from transport is the need to reduce the level of car use. We spoke to the Love 30 campaign last week about default speed limits, which are an issue for local authorities. Default speed limits of 30 km/h in urban areas and a proper definition of what urban areas are, because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My next question is probably for the road hauliers, but it is a general question on bypassing our urban centres. Mr. Hyland mentioned the issue of trucks braking. Some pilot work has been done on efficient driving for HGV drivers. Separately, in urban areas, there is a significant challenge where truck drivers have to constantly brake and stop-start. This has an impact on fuel use. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: The issue of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: If drivers are making the choice to bypass the tolls, that is having a knock-on impact in towns from both a safety and an air-quality point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: This has been a really useful session and a serious eye-opener for me. I sense a level of frustration from a lot of the sectors. The committee's reporting on this needs to reflect that frustration. It appears to me that there is a failure to look at these issues overall in the Department through an emissions reduction lens. That is what we are trying to achieve here. If there are...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I am happy to take over the chairing duties for today. I advise members that we will now go into private session.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Apologies have been received from our Chair, Deputy George Lawlor, and Senators Eileen Flynn and Joe O'Reilly. I ask anyone who is attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing so we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are on silent or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Ms Joyce. I will take questions from members now.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: That is a good suggestion.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I know Senator Maria Byrne has to depart.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Before I ask Ms Joyce to respond, I note that we have asked Tusla to come before the committee. It would be useful to have a session with that agency.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank Ms Joyce and Ms McDonagh for their wonderful presentation. I allowed the conversation to flow there because it was important to get their views. They have provided us with quite an ambitious set of recommendations here as well that we will take into our work. It has been a fantastic session. I really appreciate their time, and that of the members. With that, the committee...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I want to raise two issues. I am not sure, but perhaps we have discussed the United Nations at 80. We have had a number of discussions this morning in relation to the UN roll. I would welcome an opportunity to have debate on the United Nations at 80 in light of the fact that this is a significant milestone in the organisation's evolution. As the UN plenary concluded, it is particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the witnesses. In relation to LULUCF, it appears - I will put this question to the Department - that with the additional measure scenario, Ireland would be in a good position in terms of the effort-sharing regulation for this period, for 2021-25. Is it the Department's view that going for that higher level of ambition would give us that flexibility to meet our EU targets under LULUCF?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: With the ongoing work that is taking place around the nature restoration plan, does the Department see a really good opportunity for farmers to be involved in schemes and embed, through the CAP strategic plan, schemes that would have had short-term cycles, such as LIFE projects and EIPs, into a much longer-term funding mechanism for restoration, grassland management and expansion of wet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: This obviously involves the work with Teagasc in not just socialising that - I apologise to the Chair, I will come back in the second round - but also ensuring there are good training programmes embedded in Kildalton to support farmers to make that. For a lot of farms over the past number of years, particularly those in the south east and intensive dairy farms where farmers are implementing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: This has been a really useful session. I have a quick question on AD. The biomethane strategy seems to be very much based on using grass rather than secondary farm slurries or food waste, with which we could actually deliver greater benefits in addressing emissions. One of the early AD plants in this country, in Kilkenny, my home county, has been using secondary farm slurries consistently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have a second question. Has the carbon intensity of using the land for AD rather than for ruminants been calculated? Has there been a cross-check analysis of the carbon savings from such a system?