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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I will write to Mr. Creegan about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: No.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I was not particularly excited about this particular meeting, but I have to say the witnesses have certainly changed my mind about it. It is much more interesting than I was expecting.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I have a question for Engineers Ireland, which noted that engineers are in short supply and that Ireland is going to need 22,000 additional engineers over the course of the next decade to meet the demands of various sectors. Does Engineers Ireland think we can meet those targets? I am also interested in what was said about local authorities overseeing national projects. Are there any county...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: There is only one local authority that has that?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Local authorities, with the education training boards and such, could play a part. There are a lot more primary schools now under the ETB than there ever was. Gaelscoileanna and so on are under the ETB-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: All the witnesses have mentioned multi-annual funding and that pipeline continuity. I think the ACEI statement mentioned red tape and how the EU laws and regulations are transposed into Irish law. I do not know how an EU communication can be two-pages long in Spain and 200-pages long in Ireland. I used to live in Spain, and it is really easy to get planning there. You go down to the...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I was unsure what the Chair's laughing meant.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Yes, it is just so simple. Why are we transposing EU legislation and making it 200 pages and other European countries can do it with two pages?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Is that the report the witness has?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Is there an example of EU legislation that is 200 pages in Irish legislation and two pages in Spanish? Can witnesses back that claim up?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I would be really interested in that because that is a job committees do. We are in charge of making sure those laws are transposed.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I remember as a councillor I would get all the reports. I often wondered if anybody read them or even the county development plan. I remember when I was elected only a couple of months before and I was handed this huge thing. I was the first Sinn Féin member to be elected in Kildare and I just wanted the Six Counties back, to be honest. I was handed this big national development...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: We do like a pat on the head, yes.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: There are loads of contradictions in it too.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Somebody has to read it as well, first.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Will Mr. Murnane pass the example on to me or through the committee? I would be interested in that.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: My question is to the Irish Academy of Engineering. Mr. Finlay talked about the common good, environmental consent and so on. We all have to adhere to the Aarhus Convention. I am also on the climate committee. We have to take account of that convention. Mr. Finlay said the IAE wanted environmental laws to be streamlined by referral to the Law Reform Commission. Is that a complicated way...