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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Bill does not include provision for offsetting. Such inclusion would not be appropriate as it would undermine the obligations contained in the Bill. The legislation has been developed to focus on achieving obligations through emissions reductions and removals in the State, not by way of markets here or elsewhere, as provided for in the relevant definitions in respect of emissions and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Peatlands are considered Managed Wetlands and are currently reported in Ireland’s national greenhouse gas emission inventory submissions to the EU and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation (LULUCF) requires each Member State to ensure that accounted CO₂ emissions from land use are entirely compensated by an...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Management of each of Ireland’s more than 140 salmon rivers, including the Maine, derives from the individual conservation needs of the rivers as each has a genetically unique stock of salmon. The annual management advice of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IF) is supported by the annual assessment of individual stocks by, and scientific advice of, the Technical Expert Group on Salmon...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I refer the Deputy to the response provided to Question [29992/21] on Wednesday, 2 June 2021. The position remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Better Energy Warmer Homes Scheme delivers a range of energy efficiency measures free of charge to low income households vulnerable to energy poverty. In order to qualify for support, applicants must own and live in their home which was built and occupied before 2006 and must be in receipt of certain social welfare payments. To date, over 143,000 homes have received free upgrades...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: To ensure genuine community participation in the separate community category of the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS), the definition of a community-led project for the purposes of the first RESS auction included the stipulation that such projects must be at least 51% owned by a Renewable Energy Community (REC). For future RESS auctions this will rise to a 100% REC ownership...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 to 236, inclusive, together. The Deputies will be aware that the Government is fully committed to supporting a significant expansion and modernisation of the electric vehicle charging network over the coming years.  €10 million was committed from the Climate Action Fund (CAF) to support ESB investment in the charging network...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The purpose of the investment hierarchies within my Department’s draft land transport investment framework is to ensure that the most appropriate solutions to a given transport issue or opportunity are deployed. The modal hierarchy seeks to promote sustainable transport modes while the intervention hierarchy seeks to ensure we invest in a manner that is proportional to the issue at...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The report to which the question refers was submitted to the Department in 2010, a time when the three transport accident investigation units (aviation, rail and marine) were located in three different locations in Dublin. Following consideration of the report the three units were co-located in a dedicated investigation facility in the Department’s office.  As you may be...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: While I agree that we must start regulating aviation and shipping, they are by nature global emissions and we cannot legislate for emissions outside of the State. As much as one might like to manage it in this way, it is better managed in the European and international process, and not through our domestic legislation. I cannot support the amendment.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: As I said in an earlier contribution, we have amended the main Act to take into account the clawback we had at an earlier Bill, and will include in the relevant National Oil Reserves Agency, NORA, legislation support for nature-based solutions. We defined them as enhancing biodiversity and that they seek to reduce or decrease, at the same time, the removal of greenhouse gas emission and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The appointment process will take into account a range of different characteristics and qualifications and I expect the Climate Change Advisory Council to reflect that. I do not believe it requires a definition of socioeconomic disadvantage to assist that process. I cannot support the amendment.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I accept the need for social justice in this transition. That is best delivered in the concept of a just transition, which is referred to in the Bill as a requirement of our approach and in the wider social justice issue in terms of climate justice. I cannot accept the amendment, but its intent is reflected in the legislation as drafted.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We have to transition away from gas. It will have a key role in providing backup for renewables, which is reflected in the wording of the amendment, but it cannot be seen as a long-term mainstay of our generation. It will have a role in backing up renewables as we find and roll out new mechanisms and new storage systems. However, the definition in the amendment would risk confusing the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: My response will be similar to an earlier one. We cannot legislate for non-territorial emissions, I am afraid, and I am asking that the amendment be withdrawn.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I cannot support the amendment because, similar to an earlier point, we cannot legislate for non-territorial emissions.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I cannot support the amendment. There will be both nature-based and technological ways of removing carbon. To differentiate strengthens or highlights the role of nature-based solutions, so I would retain the existing wording and will not support the amendment.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: There may be technological solutions. Carbon capture and storage, CCS, is an example of a technological solution and, as I said earlier, is something I support if it can be developed on an economic basis. We could just take out both words but both have potential importance.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We will have to do much more work on just transition, which includes broadening it out from just the midlands. In that, the likes of the National Economic and Social Council and our social dialogue with other pillars, such as the environmental, farming, social and trade union sectors, will all be engaged in a much more detailed process to ensure we do not only focus on the midlands. That...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I agree that this has to be done through international co-operation. That is why, as I said at the very start, the centre of this Bill enhances, backs up, follows on from and delivers on the Paris Agreement on climate change, which is the mechanism for international co-operation. I believe that is sufficiently addressed in the existing text and I cannot support the amendment.