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

Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank Mr. Cooke. My next question is for Mr. McPartlan. Could he give a definition of technology neutrality? It is in his statement. Is it technology that is not any worse from a climate-emissions perspective?

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

Naoise Ó Muirí: Please do.

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

Naoise Ó Muirí: That is fine. In relation to the statement from the NTA, the NTA has a good overall view as to where things are at. We are looking for barriers that this committee can document and then pragmatically try to advocate for to assist as much as we can to get to the 2030 target. If I was to put Mr. Creegan to the pin of his collar, what are the two barriers the NTA would list? It goes to...

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

Naoise Ó Muirí: Mr. Creegan said the NTA has done work in that area. Is there anything he can share with the committee or send in to us so that we could look at it because it would be of interest?

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

Naoise Ó Muirí: Brilliant. That would be great.

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

Naoise Ó Muirí: On that note I thank everyone for coming. We will be publishing all the opening statements on the Oireachtas website. May I presume that is okay? Great, thank you. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the witnesses for their attendance today and for their contributions. It was a very interesting topic and one we will have to come back to.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (8 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department is undertaking to enable local authorities to identify suitable sites for urban development zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is evaluating to reduce building costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53465/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (7 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 574. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on what section within the HSE is responsible for the purchase and evaluation of insulin delivery systems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53015/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (7 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 575. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the evaluation process for insulin delivery systems within the HSE to ensure the best possible product is made available to each patient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53016/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (7 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has considered freezing student contribution fees for students who are participating in an internship and do not avail of college facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53629/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank the Minister for the update. Just to add to what my colleague Deputy Boland said, the patient voice forum is a really good step forward. It is incredible that it has not happened before now. Well done to the Minister for putting it in place. It is a model that should work in many different areas of the health service and I really welcome it. I want to mention the area of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: The Minister put it really well herself when she said that women are the best narrators of their own lived experience and their own pain. As long as she can keep that in the centre of all of the work that will be done around endometriosis, she will make progress and she will have the support of this House.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 97. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of the national framework for endometriosis care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52187/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a decision is expected on plans to extend the basic income for artists scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52174/25]

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I thank the Minister for his presentation and I welcome the Revised Estimate. I am interested in the breakdown for the LDA. The LDA is very active in my area of Clongriffin and Baldoyle, effectively working in partnership with Dublin City Council, but in the main, it is picking up and completing a substantial phase of development that was left undone as a result of the Celtic tiger bust....

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I get the issue with the HSE and primary care. I do not need the answer now but, in the long term, I am interested in the question of a community facility within a substantial LDA development. I hope these developments will get bigger and more substantial. What is the mechanism by which the Department sees community facilities being funded and delivered? Perhaps it is information I can...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on work currently being undertaken within his Department to liaise with the private sector to ensure there is improvement in communication infrastructure in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52189/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (2 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: 125. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the legislation being drafted to further regulate nicotine inhaling products and single-use vapes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52188/25]

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: Sport is essential to Irish life. It would be hard to find a household that was not tuned in to watch Tipperary lash Cork in the all-Ireland or to see Shane Lowry make that final hole last weekend. That spirit and such huge excitement and interest brings a real sense of belonging and identity to communities. It is so important. The previous Government recognised that with its funding...