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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: Assuming the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, takes the question, I want to congratulate him on his new role and his return to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, a Department he knows well. I wish to ask the Minister if he will consider developing a scheme, separate to grants provided by SEAI, to support home help, home care and domiciliary carers who are car-dependent due to their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the new National Cycle Manual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2439/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the effectiveness of increased fines for parking on footpaths and cycle lanes is being reviewed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2438/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: 158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost to the Exchequer associated with the provisions of the Arterial Drainage Act 1945; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2436/23]

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I welcome the climate action plan. It is the first statutory plan since the adoption of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 and the agreement last year on the sectoral emissions ceilings. One of the critical pieces of the climate Act is that it provides for an annual revisable plan and should we find we are off track at any point, we can review and revise the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I welcome the director to the meeting and thank him for his presentation and for answering our questions. When we talk about rewetting, we are talking about returning land to a state in which it was in the past. In Ireland, we are talking principally about marginal land that would have been drained in the past half century. We are probably not talking about other lands. That is where most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: I do not know how much of my contribution was heard by the director so I will go back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission (18 Jan 2023)

Brian Leddin: As I understand it, that legislation on the Irish Statute Book was primarily a labour activation measure but it brought marginal land - much of which consisted of peaty soils, which we now know emit carbon - into agricultural use. I do not want to say it involves a lot of that land. It would be premature to say so because we do not yet have the output of the land use review. That will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: 72. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the initiatives that he has facilitated, or plans to facilitate, to encourage the engagement of IDA Ireland with Irish Rail and the National Transport Agency to provide public transport services to IDA Ireland parks, such as Raheen industrial estate, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62128/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: I ask the Minister if he will report on the initiatives he has facilitated or plans to facilitate to encourage the engagement of IDA Ireland with Irish Rail and the National Transport Authority to provide public transport services to IDA Ireland parks, such as Raheen industrial estate in my constituency of Limerick city, and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Tánaiste for his answer. He will be pleased to know that the draft strategy is no longer a draft but has been across the line as of last week. It is a very good strategy. As the Tánaiste will know, there is a very ambitious plan for development of bus and rail networks in Limerick city as well as active travel networks. He will also know that the Government is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: I agree and a train station in Raheen is in phase 2 of the plan. The question is when phase 2 will happen. We can make a case for it to begin sooner rather than later. There is a role for IDA Ireland to be proactive and work with the NTA and the local authority to make that happen. It is genuinely a very exciting plan for Limerick and the whole mid-west region. It will also help...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: 681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of dogs in the greyhound racing pool for each of the months January to December 2020 and each of the months January to December 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62233/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: 682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has knowledge of the circumstances in which an organisation (details supplied) recently cancelled its contract with Curraheen Park for its Friday evening fixture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62234/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: 683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a feasibility study of the proposed development works at Kilkenny Greyhound Stadium has been carried out; if so, the results of this study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62235/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: 684. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a representative of Rásaíocht Con Éireann accompanies consignments of dogs transported to the US as part of the Irish greyhounds to America programme; if so, the amount for each journey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62236/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: I have received apologies from Deputy Alan Farrell. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss media. This is the third meeting in our series of sessions on media and communications in the effort to bring about effective climate action. Today's session will be split in two. In the first session, we will hear from representatives from RTÉ and in the second session, we have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank Ms Peterman for her opening statement. I now invite members to indicate if they want to ask questions. We have limited time today so I propose that we take just five minutes for questions and answers. I ask members and our witnesses to be as succinct as possible in their questions and answers. If I may go first, Ms Peterman, my committee colleague, Deputy O'Rourke mentioned last...