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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Heritage Council (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Members are probably used to standing up here and saying they are disappointed with the response they get. I warmly welcome the response from the Minister of State in this case. As I said in my opening remarks, it is really important that we use an evidence-based approach. I refer to that specific point I made about the research function in the Heritage Council, but all of that will be...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I do not have much to say after that. I thank Senator Ryan for sharing her experience with us. It brings into perspective why we are here this evening. We know that so many families are affected through domestic violence and children in particular are affected greatly. This Bill, first introduced by my colleague Vincent P. Martin in the previous Seanad, had got us to Committee Stage. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh na hAirí. I welcome the Ministers. I will make one quick point before I focus on my questions. Regarding the Arts Council, my experience over the last number of years is that, under Maureen Kennelly's stewardship, it has brought a lot of inclusivity. I have attended an awful lot of events and have seen funding from the Arts Council that has brought that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have a few seconds left. On the national museums, I ask about the ambition in terms of capital investment in our physical museum spaces but also – I mentioned this at a meeting the Minister had with the committee a number of weeks ago – the repository in Swords, where much of the national collection from the National Monuments Service, national museums, the OPW and others is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I was attending another meeting on climate change but my understanding is that the contract for the former director of the Arts Council was a final contract and not a temporary contract. Why was the view of the board of the Arts Council disregarded that it would be more beneficial for the public interest that the contract not be extended? There is a vilification of the former director of...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: The challenge, and this was raised the last day, is one of fairness and fair distribution of burden sharing. It appears that we are going to overshoot considerably and each of the overshoots has to be carried into the next budget, which will put further pressure on Ireland to meet its targets at the end of the budgetary cycle and, as per a previous CCAC report, will result in significant...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: The Climate Change Advisory Council has stated clearly there should be no new fossil fuel infrastructure by 2039. In the Minister’s view, does that rule out the need or economic cost of developing public LNG infrastructure in Ireland?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I welcome the Minister's comments on the nuclear industry but I will be writing to him and to the Taoiseach about the damning report on the Sellafield reprocessing plant. I ask him to engage with his counterparts on that. On the issue of turf cutting, it is industrial strip mining and it is important that the resources are front loaded to the local authorities to deal with this once and...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I thank the Minister for his presentation. We also dealt with this issue with members of the Climate Change Advisory Council the last day. We had a submission from Professor John Sweeney and others that really calls into question the methodology in carbon budget 3 and the failure to apply the Paris test, moving from reducing the requirement from 160...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Care of the Elderly (26 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Tá brón orm, a Sheanadóir Ní Chuilinn. Níl an freagra réidh fós so leanfaimid ar aghaidh go dtí Ní i dTosach Suíonna 4.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim leithscéal leis an Seanadóir Ní Chuilinn; níl freagra againn. I do apologise most profusely to Senator Ní Chuilinn. We do not have a response to her question from the Department. I just want to say on the Senator's behalf that it is unacceptable. If a Senator goes to the trouble of tabling a Commencement matter, there should be an answer here for them. I...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I commend the advisory council on the work it did with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council earlier this year on the report on the costs of missing the targets. It is an excellent report. I have a couple of questions, one based on some of the public submissions, from Professor John Sweeney and others, as regards their conclusion around the current...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I am sorry to interrupt Ms Donnelly. Is it not really a pipe dream anyway, globally? It is factored into the Paris Agreement but is it not really just pie-in-the-sky stuff, fictitious, in terms of its ability to do anything meaningful?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

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Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I apologise.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I will go back to biodiversity. The nature restoration plan is in train. Is there tracking looking at the higher ambition of the nature restoration plan to meet all of the articled requirements in terms of rewetting peat soils and woodlands, etc? Is that being given consideration in the context of potential for carbon sequestration? The witnesses are also right to say the land use plan...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I go back to the point on the submission from Professor Sweeney. It refers to the Government bringing forward substantial and new additional interventions to directly and reliably reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly than has been achieved to date. Does Ms Donnelly have a view on that?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I have two questions. First, can the council go into more detail about the recommendation to bring legal mandates to public bodies in accordance with the 2021 Act in the context of carbon budgets 3 and 4. I know we did this with the National Biodiversity Action Plan when we put a biodiversity duty on public bodies. It is really important to get that recommendation brought forward as...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: Would it be possible to add something to the report back to the committee? I know it is more complex, and we still do not have the land use review, but is it possible to engage on the nature restoration plan and how the potential figures at the upper end of the restoration targets might potentially positively impact on sequestering carbon? It is a much more complex area than straight energy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Noonan: I look forward to an all-Leinster all-Ireland hurling final in a few weeks between Dublin and Kilkenny. On 4 June, the Public Accounts Committee in Westminster received and considered a damning report on the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility in Cumbria. It heard of a crumbling site where there is a suboptimal workplace culture, where the clean-up will take 135 years at a cost of...