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Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: Can I speak to amendment No. 22 then?

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: I agree quite a bit with the spirit of the amendment. It speaks to what we envisaged at the outset when we considered what this new office was going to be for Limerick on foot of the plebiscite. I reiterate that Limerick alone opted to have a directly elected mayor, whereas Cork and Waterford, which also had the opportunity, chose not to pursue this possibility. Limerick did so on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2023)

Brian Leddin: 125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 7 December 2023, to outline his plans to develop housing on State-owned lands in the Limerick metropolitan area, other than those at Colbert Station, in line with the principles of the transit-oriented development and the new transport nodes identified in LSMATS; and if he will...

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

Brian Leddin: The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the review of the Climate Action Plan 2023 with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Coveney. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister and his officials to the meeting this afternoon. Before we start, I will read out the note on privilege. I remind the witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that...

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 his opening statement. I invite members to indicate if they wish to ask questions. We have a further hour and 45 minutes and must conclude by 3.30 p.m. Therefore, I ask members to be succinct in their questions and the Minister to be as brief as possible in his replies. On the two big proposals, will the Minister provide timelines for the industrial emissions...

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

Brian Leddin: Next year’s climate action plan is probably drafted and ready to go. Can we expect to see anything new in there or will it be a case of doubling down on last year's plan and getting it right?

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

Brian Leddin: To clarify, I said the meeting will finish at 3.30 p.m. but it will be at 3 p.m., so we have only slightly more than an hour.

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 thought Deputy Bruton would relish the opportunity to explore this further at the committee. As we come to discuss our work programme for next year, perhaps it is something we could look at in the earlier part of the year and-----

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

Brian Leddin: Very good. We have made Deputy Bruton our committee rapporteur in the area of the circular economy.

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

Brian Leddin: You definitely will not be.

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

Brian Leddin: We have to finish up at 3 p.m. so I ask-----

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.

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