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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: Will the Minister of State come back to the committee with a briefing note on the approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: We would certainly appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State. I will pick up on another earlier contribution about embodied carbon. We discussed embodied carbon in new buildings and valuing it in existing buildings too. I appreciate the work his Department is doing in that area. This is perhaps more related to his responsibility for planning. There is embodied carbon in road construction as well. While acknowledging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I totally understand. On the planning aspect, that might be considered as part of the review of the national planning framework. It is not just about roads. Ports, for example, are a big part of it and involve the use of a huge amount of concrete. We absolutely need ports, especially the massively upgraded ones required to advance the renewable energy ambition we have. With the planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I absolutely agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I appreciate that. It is really about understanding the carbon impact at a project-specific level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: The review of the national planning framework might be where we start to look at this. It can be our guide path.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I welcome the responses from the Ministers of State. As no other members are indicating, we will conclude. I sincerely thank the Minister, who had to leave a little earlier, and the Ministers of State for their time this morning. They really had their homework done, which the committee appreciates. This is the first time the committee has had the Minister and Ministers of State from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I have just been at another committee with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, the Ministers of State, Deputy O'Donnell and Deputy Noonan, at which we discussed many things relating to housing. We touched on vacancy and dereliction quite a bit. However, we finished early and I figured that I could not walk past this committee room without saying hello to the Limerick contingent, although...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: Can the witnesses say what percentage of the notices they have issued led to the owner getting on with it, developing, refurbishing or whatever? In what percentage of cases have they had to go further and issue CPOs or apply levies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: Do the witnesses see that some owners are just putting the properties on the market? Is that increasingly the case? They might not be in the development game themselves and they might not have the capacity to develop, notwithstanding the supports that are there. Are we seeing more properties being put on the market and then purchased by those who might be interested in developing them?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: What is the position where a property is put on the open market, somebody acquires it and it remains derelict? I refer to circumstances where the new owner does not refurbish the property. At what point will the council go back to the new owner and say that the only reason the previous owner sold the property was because it had been stated that a CPO was going to issue? How much grace does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: The council is very willing to engage quickly with a new owner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: On the embodied carbon in existing buildings, notwithstanding what is being done at the national level, there is scope to look at this at the local level. Larger buildings in particular involve a lot of concrete and there is a carbon value associated with that. If we had a sense of that value for a number of buildings, it would inform us. It would also inform planning as we go forward....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: 80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress of the expansion of the national air quality monitoring network under the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28883/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: 113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the findings of the EPA’s Ireland’s GHG Emissions Projections 2022-2040 report; his plans to revise the Climate Action Plan to achieve the 51% emissions reduction target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28843/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Brian Leddin: I note the Rural Independent Group left the Chamber together a few moments ago. I note the absence of their colleague and my county colleague, Deputy Richard O'Donoghue because he has fallen ill. I send my best wishes to Deputy O'Donoghue and his family. The Rural Independent Group spoke about the Green Party being anti-rural Ireland. I have to say that is absolutely, totally and...