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Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...on nature. It is only right that we do so but we should try to take up that other opportunity as well. Quite a number of Deputies, including Deputy Bruton, raised the issue of the referendum and the work of the expert group. There will be transparency around the group concerning the terms of reference and so on. It is not a foregone conclusion that the work of the group will lead to...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome the debate. I welcome all the work that Deputy Brian Leddin and the committee put in, including Deputies Darren O'Rourke, Paul Murphy and others who have left the Chamber. It has been a very valuable debate with a lot of insight. Globally, we are using materials from nature each year that are double the capacity of nature to replenish. That is heading in the wrong direction and...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...road from Menlo into Galway. We have decarbonisation zones but there is no money for them. We have the climate action plans but they are not funded. All of the local authorities are under-funded and under-resourced. I am extremely critical of management. Staff are underfunded, under-resourced and under-supported. At the end of the day, we need the community to be involved. The...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...grabbing for the emergency brake." If we ever wanted an example of why we collectively need to pull the emergency brake, we look at the scale of the biodiversity crisis that is facing humanity and the globe. There have been a 70% drop in wildlife populations over the past 50 years with extinction now threatening a quarter of all of Earth's species, 40% of amphibians, one third of marine...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will pick up where the Deputy left off in echoing his comments about the rights of nature and the establishment of the expert group. We do need that constitutional change to recognise people's right to a healthy environment on one hand and the rights of nature on the other. We know from very recent history that referenda are tricky. In the longer term and particularly as we look at the...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the climate committee's consideration of the landmarks citizens' assembly on biodiversity loss. I thank the witnesses who presented before the committee. I also thank the secretariat, the other committee members, a number of whom are in the Chamber, and the Chair of the committee for his chairing of proceedings. Like others, I most of all want to thank...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...opportunity to have five minutes on this but I put it to the Ceann Comhairle that it is not enough. I would ask the Business Committee to look at this. Last week we were in the Chamber for two and a half hours on the smoking ban, a measure that is 20 years old and very successful. Today there is 75 minutes on this motion. I thank the Chair of the committee and the committee members...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome the rights of nature advocates who are in the Gallery. They and other environmental advocates have been working for decades to try to bring to the fore the needs of nature. Their work on this issue has been vital. As we are all aware, nature is in crisis. It has been dying on its feet for decades and that process has accelerated in recent years. Aligned with that is our...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss and the young people's assembly on biodiversity loss. I commend Dr. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin and the members of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action on their work on this important report. I commend, in particular, Deputy Leddin who chaired the joint committee because, having been in the Chair of a...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak today. I take this opportunity to formally welcome the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Change report on the examination of the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. I express my thanks to members of the committee, who worked collaboratively and very diligently to produce the report in a...

Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Motion (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Leddin: I move: That Dáil Éireann, in accordance with a Resolution of the Dáil of 22nd February, 2022, and the Order of the Dáil of 20th June, 2023, shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action entitled "Report on the examination of recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly report on biodiversity loss", copies of which were laid before...