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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation. I have several questions, and one follows the question on data centres. I welcome Mr. Gannon's proposal that we would have an opportunity for further engagement given the delay in putting together the piece of work. It would be most welcome if we could have further engagement because members are quite interested in the issue....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My next question is on water. The issue of Uisce Éireann's water charges plan has been raised. Uisce Éireann had been seeking an 18% increase. Specific to the CRU, does it do any projected modelling on potential costs of projects, for instance, the proposed Shannon water pipeline to the greater Dublin area? This will be a significant capital outlay by Uisce Éireann....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (24 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have just one question. The issue of the potential impacts of Storm Éowyn, other storm events and extreme weather events generally was mentioned. What is the knock-on potential electricity cost of such an event? It has exposed a challenge around a lack of coherence in our rural housing policies. In particular, Mr. Mulligan mentioned the dispersed settlement patterns. We have a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I join others in wishing Martin Groves all the very best. I also wish Martin Hughes the very best in his new role. I want to raise an issue that was brought forward throughout the summer and particularly highlighted by the fish kill of up to 40,000 fish in the River Blackwater. It is an incident over which the EPA and everybody else seems to be wringing their hands, yet they are unable...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for the update. It was comprehensive and useful. I have a couple of comments and questions. I begin with the early learning and care and the Equal Start programme. I have certainly raised this issue here before. Do the witnesses have a view about on-site early years education versus integration? I have had experience with Traveller families in my...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree wholeheartedly and have seen some of that working well on the ground in some early learning centres in my home town. Ms Baxter also addressed the issue of Traveller culture and identity. I welcome the work that has been done with the Heritage Council. In my previous role, I managed to put in funding for a Traveller inclusion and heritage officer within the council. The work being...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: That is most welcome. I have two final points. One is on the issue of housing. We had the Department of housing before us. I think it was at our last session before the recess. Looking at housing policy it is absolutely accepted that the needs of young Traveller families are changing. Many are opting to rent privately or find accommodation outside of group housing schemes. However, it...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I apologise. There is one more point. It occurred to me that over the past number of weeks I have been involved in a project in Kilkenny. It is largely a biodiversity project about the ancient skill of scything. We have had some Traveller men and boys working on the project with us. It has been brilliant in terms of engagement. There might be an opportunity as we look towards the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I listened to the Minister of State with responsibility for overseas development, Deputy Neale Richmond, at the National Ploughing Championships yesterday. He said that we are at an existential crisis point when it comes to international development solidarity between the global north and global south. This is a climate justice issue above all else because of the disproportionate price the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Could Professor Daly explain the particular challenge with methane in the context of temperature neutrality versus the Paris test, which lies at the core of both submissions made to us today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: My final questions for this round are for Professor McMullin. Earlier, he called for an open and independent peer review of the appropriate methodologies for the assessment of carbon budgets. Does he have a view on how that should take place? Is it unusual to have to call for that, given that we have been presented with a proposed budget? How does Professor McMullin anticipate that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank our witnesses for all the comprehensive answers. I think Professor Daly answered my question. I was going to ask about the possible rationale behind this temperature neutrality approach being around accommodating the potential expansion of the herd. Having said that, the herd has contracted, albeit modestly, over the last number of years by about 4%, both in suckler and dairy. On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Sep 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Exactly.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Register of Electors (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Before I ask the Minister of State to respond, I ask the Senator to be careful about naming individuals in his contribution. A Aire, tá fáilte romhat.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Register of Electors (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I remind the Senator to make general comments in relation to electoral form. As the Minister of State has outlined, it is not appropriate for him to reference specific cases.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Fees (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the presentation. A lot of the questions I had were probably addressed in the response to Deputy Ellis. There is an overarching issue with the cross-collaborative approach, not just from the Department of education. The big challenge from my experience with Traveller families in my own community is that with issues like housing, intergenerational...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: It answers my questions very well. I thank Ms Cullen. I welcome the comments about integrating Traveller culture and education into the system for all pupils. Later in the year, the committee will have a session with the Heritage Council, which is in the process of finalising a Traveller heritage strategy. We look forward to that session later on in the year. Cultural integration of...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Participation in Education: Department of Education and Youth (17 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have heard of it, yes.