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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Kelly. Is Deputy O'Rourke's question for the farming organisations as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Does Deputy O'Rourke have enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Having said that, it is not a good analogy because the State sets targets for housing as much as it does for agriculture. Once the targets get agreed we then decide what the incentives and the policies will be. Currently, we do not have a situation where farmers are being forced to rewet their land. We are trying to agree what the target should be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: The retrofitting comes under the law and the climate action plans as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Is the witness referring to the AR6 report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: No. I am going to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: There are four members looking to come in. For their own benefit, Senator Higgins is next, then Senator Dooley, then Senator Boylan and then Deputy Bríd Smith. Senator Higgins is joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: There are four or five questions. I ask our guests to be as brief as they can be because I want to give time for other members to come in and we only have 45 minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Ms O'Neill for that. The second question was for Dr. McGoff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. McGoff. As regards the Arterial Drainage Act 1945, the committee recommended that the Act be reviewed in its report published before Christmas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Was it on the voluntarism point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I put that question to the farming organisations and ask them to be as succinct as they can be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: We can agree that the science is in dispute but there is a question, today at least, about the Irish context and the data.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: The land use review, as Ms O'Neill said, was peer-reviewed. It is important to state that. Mr. Roddy is on his own when he says there is a dispute with respect to the science in the Irish context.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Roddy. I will go to Mr. Kelly. Again, I ask him to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Kelly and Senator Higgins. Deputy Bríd Smith will join us from her office. Senator Dooley is happy for her to go before him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)
Brian Leddin: Will the farming organisations go first?