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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I will go back to Niamh now and she can delegate as she wishes. A few questions were asked. I will get to Senator O’Reilly’s question, but Deputy Kenny’s was about the guests’ engagement with adults and whether they feel adults are sceptical about this process. He also talked about their role and the importance of their voice. Deputy Bruton asked a similar...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: That was a very thorough answer to Deputy Bruton. David is very at home in this committee. He could give us all a run for our money here. I thank him for that answer. Does anybody else wish to come in on those questions? Conor may go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Conor. That was very well put. I want that message to go out to everybody outside this committee room and across the whole political system. It is such a critically important point. It is not about the never-never; it is actually about the now. Does Niamh wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank Niamh for that. She has very much answered Senator O'Reilly's question about the importance of having youth citizen assemblies. This the first one we have had so it is certainly something the Oireachtas should consider as we go forward for other citizens' assemblies. Senator O'Reilly also asked whether Niamh had any particular recommendations she feels passionately about. She...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I will go to another member and then maybe we will go back to the witnesses. Deputy O'Rourke is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I will summarise the questions for the witnesses. Deputy Whitmore asked whether you are worried about biodiversity and whether this process you have been involved in helped to make you feel a bit better and feel there is a way forward and there are solutions. Deputy O'Rourke's focus was on transport and what you think about increasing public transport and opportunities for walking and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Elsie. That is a really important message and one we have been trying to get across to our colleagues in the Dáil and the Seanad. It is very important that you have said this and that we hear it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, David. We will have to get you into the transport committee. They could learn a thing or two from you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: Believe it or not it was brought to my attention because I was speaking with my colleague who lives Tramore. He told me all about it. Thank you, Niamh. This is evidence of your voice being heard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Senator, who I should have welcomed back to the committee. I thank her for her contribution. Some things have not changed. She still manages to get many questions in during the time allocated to her. Let that be instructive to our guests, who can certainly learn from Senator Higgins.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Senator. Our guests can see they are getting just as much of an interrogation as our regular guests. We will not have time to facilitate our guests to give lengthy answers because there are other elements to their programme to which they need to get. I will call Deputy O'Sullivan before I go back to our guests to answer, as best they can, the questions that have been put to them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Deputy. For our guests' benefit, I will summarise some of the questions asked and the areas mentioned. I do not expect our guests to address them all but if there are any of particular interest to any of our guests, I ask them to indicate and they can speak to it. Senator Higgins talked about the importance of enforcement and the interesting area of the mining of precious...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: He was here for the start of the presentation. He sat up at the back. That shows how seriously he takes the issue and how seriously he regards the witnesses’ voices. He is an incredibly busy person but took the time to sit in. Deputy O’Sullivan talked about the challenge we have as we get older. We all start out with so much passion for changing things, but as we engage...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I thank everyone for all those answers. As is often the case, Deputy O'Sullivan wants to get in with another question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: It is not unusual for the committee to go way over time because we are dealing with very serious issues and have very committed members. It is also because we have guests today who are so passionate and serious about trying to find solutions to biodiversity loss. They are to be immensely commended on the work they do and have done, as are their colleagues. There was some disappointment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: That was helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: I will go to Deputy O'Rourke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)
Brian Leddin: Yes, go ahead.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023) Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Devlin. This meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 29. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Ossian Smyth. Before I begin, I will read out the note on privilege. I remind members of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (16 Nov 2023) Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State for his opening statement. I invite members to ask questions. I call Deputy Bruton.