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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. Collins and I invite Mr. Scheer from SEAI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. Scheer. I call Mr. Denis O'Sullivan, head of commercial and corporate affairs, Gas Networks Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. O'Sullivan. I have one question for the SEAI and Gas Networks Ireland. Mr. Scheer referred in his opening statement to the University of Manchester research that indicates that by 2035, the substantial use of fossil fuels, including natural gas, within the EU's energy strategy will be incompatible with the temperature commitments in the Paris Agreement. Given that 2035 is only...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. Muttit. I shall bring in Mr. Collins or whoever wants to answer those questions from the Department. I will then come back to Deputy Bríd Smith.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: Not at all. I thank Mr. Muttitt for taking the time to travel over. It is very much appreciated. We will continue with the answers to the rest of the questions asked. Mr. Finucane may respond to Deputy Eamon Ryan’s questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will invite Deputy Smith to contribute before I ask the other witnesses to answer questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: We will start with Mr. Scheer, then go to Gas Networks Ireland and the Department in that order. A number of questions were asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: Are there more questions Mr. Scheer wishes to answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: We will move onto Gas Networks Ireland. I call Mr. O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. Collins. Would Deputy Smith like to make her closing remarks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Deputy. On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the delegates for coming before us and their substantive engagement with us. It is proposed that the committee publish the opening statements and submissions received on its website. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Employment Equality Act Order: Minister for Education and Skills (5 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Minister for that presentation. I also support the order. It is important that minority faiths are supported, and without this order the Church of Ireland would have grave difficulty in maintaining the ethos of its schools. On the broader front, in the long term, does the Minister believe that it is the State's place to support the ethos of particular faiths? I ask because...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank both delegates for their presentations. Mr. Curtis said that education cannot be deemed to be holistic in any sense if it ignores either our actions or the spiritual or moral basis of the values that inform such actions. Does JMB have a stance on what it believes to be the moral issues relating to the teaching of RSE? Are there particular things that JMB does not want taught under...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome that Mr. Curtis stated there is no area of the RSE programme that the JMB is unwilling to have taught in its schools. Is there any particular part of the RSE programme -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: Are they all taught in schools under JMB management?
- Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Minister for allowing me a moment of his speaking time. As the Chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, I wish to put on the record of this House how important I view the establishment of this special committee. As one who served on the Special Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, I can attest to the value of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I call Deputy Eamon Ryan next. The witnesses can take a record of the questions and I will come back to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: Do you want me to call you later?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will go back to the witnesses, staring with the officials from the Department. Members may contribute again if there are unanswered questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Scrutiny of Petroleum and Other Mineral Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (3 Jul 2018)
Hildegarde Naughton: I will let Mr. Collins reply and then I will allow Deputy Eamon Ryan to speak later.