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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister for that response and Senator O'Reilly for her questions. I call Deputy Paul Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: As I said when the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, was at the committee last week, ordinarily, we do not get to have this kind of back and forth with a Minister to discuss in detail some of the challenges. It is a fantastic discussion and we are teasing out the problems we are trying to solve. It shows the power of the process put in place with the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Other sectors may have primary responsibility in electricity generation and agriculture but so does the Minister's. No sector can operate independently. The Minister is very passionate about Ireland's offshore opportunity in the decades ahead. It is fair and legitimate to say, given the limited resources at the Department of housing, that it is focusing on the east coast development of our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Maybe even a year ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I am a bit partisan as well, but I agree with the Minister. I acknowledge the work of the committee members, who are incredibly engaged on these issues and who turn up, week after week and multiple times a week, on these issues. I am happy to say there is broad political agreement on the direction of travel, if not the detail. Everybody approaches this is in good faith and sincerely. I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to develop housing on State-owned lands in line with the principles of the transit-oriented development in Limerick metropolitan area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54133/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop housing policy with appropriate density and zoning, such that it supports the development of district heating networks and rail transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54134/23]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, and his officials. Before we begin to consider the Bill, I invite the Minister of State to make an opening statement.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State. We will commence our consideration of the Bill.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Amendments Nos. 1 and 7 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Amendment No. 2 has been ruled out of order as it is outside the scope of the Bill.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Does any member wish to speak to amendment No. 3? No.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: As amendment No. 4 is in my name, I cannot sit in the Chair. I ask Deputy Bruton to take the Chair.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 12, to delete lines 25 and 26 and subsitute the following: “(ii) by the insertion of the following definitions: “ ‘Act of 2014’ means the Companies Act 2014; ‘carbon budget’ has the meaning assigned to it in section 1 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (as amended), and means the total...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I believe it was Thursday or Friday.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Do I get to press the amendment or can I come back in on the debate?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Okay. At this point I will not. To respond to the Minister of State's comments, I accept at the outset that the intent of this Bill is about dissolving Ervia. The intent of the Department and the Minister at the outset was not to do wholesale revision of the Gas Acts. Having said that, I am hearing from the Minister of State that we need to wind down the use of gas in this country. That...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, between lines 27 and 28 to insert the following: “(i) in subsection (1)— (I) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1)(a): “(1) (a) The Board shall own, operate, develop and maintain a system for the transmission and distribution of natural gas being a system that is both economical and efficient and in...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will come back in briefly, if I may. In the second part of my amendment I wanted to clarify in law and make sure, essentially, that the board is not required to promote or advertise new gas connections. I will not be pressing my amendment but this is an issue that needs clarity. I would welcome the Department looking at this and coming back to us about it on Report Stage. If it is the...