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Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: We heard that about the habitats directive.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Again, just to reassure on that, what it will deliver for us is better water quality, an enhanced ability of our landscape to purify our water, climate mitigation and nature-based solutions to mitigate flooding, such as the flooding we saw across the country this spring, which was particularly acute. I remind Members that Article 11.11 of the NRL states "Member States shall ensure that the...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are running a little early, so with the agreement of the House I propose to allow more latitude to the Regional Group for closing remarks. It does not serve the House well to suspend as we cannot proceed with the next piece of business before midday. If that is agreeable to all Members, I ask the Deputies from the group to close the debate.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Cathal Berry: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I wish the Minister of State a good morning. I am very grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important debate on the nature restoration law. I commend my good colleague, Deputy Naughten, and our group administrator Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, who did the lion's share of the work preparing this motion to be brought to the...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the motion. There are a few things to be said. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, have gone around Europe, where a lot of countries are kicking back at this law for the simple reason of the consequences it will have. It is bad legislation and should not be let in here. The Minister of State has spoken about it being voluntary. I will give...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the debate. Before I respond to some of the comments, I will put on the record that the comments made by Deputy Mattie McGrath about the Environmental Protection Agency are an absolute disgrace. I call on the Deputy to withdraw them and to correct the record of the Dáil in respect of what he said. His anti-science world view is not welcome in this Chamber. We are seeing it...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I commend the Regional Group on this very important motion. I have spoken about this issue several times in this House. It will impact on rural counties along the western seaboard and especially Kerry. Much of the land in south Kerry is already taken up by biodiversity but farmers have nonetheless improved their holdings and little fields. I did break my leg in a drain trying to improve a...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am from a farming background and all my family, and generations before me, were farmers. What the nature restoration law is doing to farmers, especially small farmers, is making bad land very expensive. If a farmer is farming every piece of a small landholding, with all the laws that are there whereby farmers need to have certain lands for biodiversity and everything else that comes with...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the members of the Regional Group on bringing forward this important motion. The EPA has released another report this morning. It is a disgraceful, discredited organisation because it will not look at municipal plants. The Minister of State knows this better than I do. I have put it to him previously. The EPA is discredited, comes out with fake news all the time, and...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Collins: The EU nature restoration law, part of the European Green Deal, requires Ireland to rewet large areas of land, posing a threat to small farmers and food security. The law lacks measures to protect farmers and their livelihoods. It will drastically alter land use and agriculture in Ireland, impacting on productive agricultural lands, especially areas with extensive wetlands. The law targets...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion on the nature restoration law because it gives us an opportunity to discuss and debate what might or might not be put onto the Statute Book. I say "might not be" because, of course, we are discussing an item of failed European legislation. As a law, it was controversial from day one, with no agreement at several EU committees, and...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Ring: I thank the Deputy. Next is People Before Profit-Solidarity. Deputies Murphy and Barry are sharing.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: There has been so much scaremongering about the nature restoration law over the past couple of years that you would have thought it is a powerful law that will drive farmers off their land. The truth is it is anything but. We have another EU proposal that has been gutted again and again by right wing parties in Europe, egged on by the big agribusiness and big farmer lobby. To top it off,...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Mick Barry: The motion reads: — the Nature Restoration Law aims to halt the decline of nature, work towards restoring habitats across the European Union (EU), whilst also targeting habitats that contribute most to the capture and storage of carbon; — the Nature Restoration Law will target 20 per cent of each EU Member States land area and, as Ireland comprises of 6.9 million hectares of...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Deputy. I turn now to the Rural Independent Group. Five Deputies are sharing.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: The recent support for the EU nature restoration law by 11 Irish MEPs, including all representatives from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party earlier this year, has raised concerns about the future of Irish family farms. This law, part of the European Green Deal, requires Ireland to rewet vast areas of land, which is posing a significant threat to small farmers and food...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: The nature restoration law is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the EU to take action in respect of the massive losses of biodiversity in recent decades. The Social Democrats are very supportive of the nature restoration law. It is vital to restore damaged ecosystems to a healthy state in Ireland and across Europe, to attempt to stop the collapse of our wildlife and to slow the...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The position relating to this matter has been laid out well by a number of speakers, including Deputy Kerrane. Deputy Conway-Walsh put it particularly well when she said that we are all in support of the restoration of nature and that we all accept the fact of the biodiversity crisis. The particular issue that we had, which relates to the motion we are dealing with today, was the fact it...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Ivana Bacik: On 27 February, we witnessed a historic vote in the European Parliament. MEPs in Strasbourg voted to approve the first-ever EU-wide nature restoration law to tackle the existential climate and biodiversity crisis. The Socialists and Democrats group, in which we in Labour are deeply proud to now be represented following the election last night of my dear friend Deputy Ó...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome this motion and the opportunity to speak on the protection and restoration of nature. Sinn Féin completely supports and prioritises the need to protect nature. The scale of the crisis relating to biodiversity cannot be understated. Sinn Féin opposed the nature restoration law but we certainly support the aim behind it. In the absence of real funding, however, we will...