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- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State for his statement. We will now proceed to questions from members on programme A. In posing their questions, they should indicate clearly the subhead they are referring to within the programme. They should limit their questions to one subhead at a time to allow other members with questions on the same one to speak before we move on to another. The same...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: May I pick up on Deputy Bruton's point on the output indicators? The Minister of State suggested that the committee might be interested in looking at this. I agree, but would the Minister of State or the Department be minded to provide a briefing note on the output indicators as they are, perhaps to help us in a piece of work on which we could then revert to the Minister of State with the...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: Two indicators jump out at me here. One is the number of local authority staff trained for climate action, which is increasing two-and-a-half-fold, which sounds very positive, but we do not know what that training is or what the output of the training is. It is something, I think-----
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: The other matter is the number of air quality monitoring visits, which is staying static between 2022 and 2023 at 115. It does not sound like a lot, given the size of the country, but maybe it is. Maybe it is satisfactory but maybe it is something-----
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: Yes, that would be very helpful. If it is adequate, fantastic, but my concern is that we are not doing enough air quality monitoring. I will move on to programme B. I call on Deputy O'Rourke.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State. If there are no more questions on programme B, we will move on to programme C.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy Whitmore. Those questions are in the context of the Estimate before us, in particular the first one. I think she is asking if an amount has been set aside for the review of IFI, similar to the NPWS review.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: We will leave it there because the issue is not on the agenda of the meeting. We will stick to the Estimates.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: I thank the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023) Brian Leddin: As there are no other members indicating, we will conclude our consideration of the Revised Estimates. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for assisting the committee.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Message to Dáil (21 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Environment and Climate Action has completed its consideration of the Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2023: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: I have received apologies from Deputy Whitmore. The purpose of today's meeting is to review the Climate Action Plan 2023, which was published just before Christmas. This is the first of our meetings with relevant Ministers. It is also the committee's first meeting in the context of its mandate under the climate Act. Accountability for progress on the climate action plan effectively lies...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: Will the Minister speak about the mechanisms being put in place to ensure across all sectors that we are going to stay on track or if we go off track, we will get back on? Is there anything built into the climate action plan to ensure that? It is an immense challenge across every sector. Certain sectors get a lot of the limelight but every sector has a huge challenge, be it energy,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: To add to Deputy O'Rourke's point, we had a session earlier in the week with housing officials, who were excellent. I want to give them credit for coming in and speaking with us but there was a sense, members found, that they were passing ownership of the very specific critical path of reducing emissions back to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. I think it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: That is a good description of its merits. I thank the Minister and Deputy Bruton. I call Deputy Bríd Smith.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: Let the Minister answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Senator Higgins. I am mindful of time and I have given the Senator a lot of latitude.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Senator but we must move on to the next speaker.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy O'Sullivan. Deputy Farrell is joining us from his office.