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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. O'Donnell. I want to give time to Deputy O'Rourke and Senator Boylan to contribute, so I ask Dr. Ó Cinnéide to be as quick as he can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. Ó Cinnéide. There are approximately six minutes remaining. I ask Deputy O'Rourke and Senator Boylan to pose their questions one after the other. We will then go back to our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: It was a recommendation of a report conducted by this committee last year that the Arterial Drainage Act be reviewed. We will keep pushing in that regard. It is now 12.15 p.m. Despite it being a short session, it has been incredibly informative and helpful for us. I thank our guests for being so clear, concise and direct in their answers. It is going to help us significantly as we get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Alan Farrell. On behalf of the committee, I welcome members of the Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss to the meeting: Niamh, Elsie, Oisín, Eleanor, Conor and David. I also welcome our visitors in the Public Gallery. By way of introduction, my name is Brian Leddin. I am a Green Party TD for Limerick. I was elected to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Before we try to answer that question, I thank Niamh for facilitating this discussion with her colleagues from the Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. The points that have been made are very pertinent and important for us to hear. We appreciate the delegation voicing their points directly to us. I invite members not just to ask questions but also to answer the very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: If our guests want time to think about their answers, we can go to some other members first and then go back to them to answer a few of those questions together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will go back to Niamh now and she can delegate as she wishes. A few questions were asked. I will get to Senator O’Reilly’s question, but Deputy Kenny’s was about the guests’ engagement with adults and whether they feel adults are sceptical about this process. He also talked about their role and the importance of their voice. Deputy Bruton asked a similar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: That was a very thorough answer to Deputy Bruton. David is very at home in this committee. He could give us all a run for our money here. I thank him for that answer. Does anybody else wish to come in on those questions? Conor may go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Conor. That was very well put. I want that message to go out to everybody outside this committee room and across the whole political system. It is such a critically important point. It is not about the never-never; it is actually about the now. Does Niamh wish to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Niamh for that. She has very much answered Senator O'Reilly's question about the importance of having youth citizen assemblies. This the first one we have had so it is certainly something the Oireachtas should consider as we go forward for other citizens' assemblies. Senator O'Reilly also asked whether Niamh had any particular recommendations she feels passionately about. She...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will go to another member and then maybe we will go back to the witnesses. Deputy O'Rourke is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will summarise the questions for the witnesses. Deputy Whitmore asked whether you are worried about biodiversity and whether this process you have been involved in helped to make you feel a bit better and feel there is a way forward and there are solutions. Deputy O'Rourke's focus was on transport and what you think about increasing public transport and opportunities for walking and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Thank you, Elsie. That is a really important message and one we have been trying to get across to our colleagues in the Dáil and the Seanad. It is very important that you have said this and that we hear it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Thank you, David. We will have to get you into the transport committee. They could learn a thing or two from you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Believe it or not it was brought to my attention because I was speaking with my colleague who lives Tramore. He told me all about it. Thank you, Niamh. This is evidence of your voice being heard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Senator, who I should have welcomed back to the committee. I thank her for her contribution. Some things have not changed. She still manages to get many questions in during the time allocated to her. Let that be instructive to our guests, who can certainly learn from Senator Higgins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Senator. Our guests can see they are getting just as much of an interrogation as our regular guests. We will not have time to facilitate our guests to give lengthy answers because there are other elements to their programme to which they need to get. I will call Deputy O'Sullivan before I go back to our guests to answer, as best they can, the questions that have been put to them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Deputy. For our guests' benefit, I will summarise some of the questions asked and the areas mentioned. I do not expect our guests to address them all but if there are any of particular interest to any of our guests, I ask them to indicate and they can speak to it. Senator Higgins talked about the importance of enforcement and the interesting area of the mining of precious...