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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...of what a revenue stream from sound environmental farming will mean in ten or 20 years' time, this uncertainty and unease will continue. We know, for example, that raising water levels on certain lands has huge carbon dividends. We know that benchmarking and reducing emissions by sequestration or altering methods can have very substantial dividends. However, the Minister of State put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: One thing surprised me when we had scientists before the committee talking about rewetting land and various things that would improve the biodiversity of land and its capacity to absorb carbon. They could not give us a relatively simple matrix that would allow us to say that if we paid farmers to do X, there would be a certain benefit on the other side of the equation from which the farmers...

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

Richard Bruton: ...authority was found by the EPA to be fully effective. Despite multiple strategies, the impact on our heritage is hugely damaging. Some 46% of habitats are in deterioration, there is damage to wetlands and the number of pristine rivers has reduced from 510 to 32. On the other hand, the potential gains from rebalancing this are huge and far in excess of the investments made. That is...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...make it easier, that the hold-outs will win the day by resisting, to the very last ditch, the ending of untenable practices and that this will provide a future for Irish agriculture or for rural Ireland. That is a totally blind alley. Every sector, regardless of what the sector is, will need to have sustainability at the heart of its long-term strategy for prosperity. The future for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: Today, we read that new house prices are believed to have peaked at levels like €310,000 in the midlands and €464,000 in Dublin. It is true that, with the assistance of Government schemes, these can now be purchased using mortgages of under €300,000. However, because these schemes do not allow buyers to express advance interest in being purchasers under the affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: 418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the procedure for managing the application of persons applying for asylum who have no documentation when they land; whether the carriers retain records of the documentation presented when boarding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2404/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (7 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will activate the cities fund to ensure that more of the affordable homes developed in cities, particularly by the Land Development Agency, LDA, can be offered for affordable purchase, and make it easier for potential eligible buyers of such homes to establish that there are sufficient buyers with the necessary access...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: The Clongriffin station is to be a strategic transport hub serving a very rapidly growing area. Indeed, it is an area where the Land Development Agency plans to develop more than 2,000 homes. At present, it has no park-and-ride facility, the underground car park is shut, the access to the Dart station from the Fingal side is in private hands, the lift is not working and the area is not in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...there. It is possibly an approach that would yield a bit more dividend and get more people engaged in seeing climate action not as hostile but as the future of a competitive food sector, land use sector and so on.

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...we need in our community to transform how we are living, which science already very largely has answers to. Taking those in turn, I have always believed that design is the neglected element in Ireland. It is powerful in other countries and some small countries like our own have made their future from the cleverness of their design and their ability to transform very ordinary...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...been a 34% increase in commencements in the past seven months, that there have been strong completions and that 30,000 first-time mortgages were approved in the past 12 months. I request that the Land Development Agency, LDA, acquire more sites with full planning permission. It has acquired 2,500 in my constituency, which is a very strong and encouraging sign. Could there be more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...us that you cannot be too confident in saying carbon farming will generate resources. We are told that on rewetting bogs we cannot be confident that farmers can generate income for an individual hectare of land. There seems to be that gulf between the 70% of key agents and the climate. Lastly, the assembly was very much saying there needs to be a higher authority to bang heads,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: My last question is to Professor Scott. What does success in reconciling land use look like?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: Will the end product of the work be something like a marginal abatement cost curve, MACC, for land use in which we will begin to see the marginal benefits and how we can establish biodiversity gains by addressing an issue? Can Professor Scott describe the sort of tool that might come out of this work? Is it all very high level stuff like what is happening in Scotland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...basis of which we could bring people with us. That is the fundamental question. The assembly tells us that enforcement is failing, we have no clear targets, we have not recognised the different land-use objectives, there are institutional failings, there is no soil science centre, we need a new water body and we need the Oireachtas to change its approach. This is really big stuff. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...the sense of urgency, the best is the enemy of the good. I suppose my question is: can we start straightaway? Are there shadow prices in biodiversity that we could make a stab at what a piece of land, that was managed in a way that is different from today, would generate in terms of gains? I accept we were told with peatlands rewetting that anything from 1 tonne to 10 tonnes could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: The dilemma seems to be that in most of the frameworks we are trying to address, be they related to land use, river catchment or whatever system we are trying to examine, we do not have the tools under the present model and cannot offer a price or reward for the sort of thing we want to change. In saying the taxonomy will incrementally address this matter, will we have missed the opportunity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (19 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...should be paid for doing the right thing. Can they point to three measures, say, for which farmers could be paid? A lot of people talk about it how it would be great to pay farmers for draining their wetlands, for example, but when we bring in the experts, they tell us they cannot measure what the carbon gain will be from draining those lands. Everyone then throws their hands in the air...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Media Pluralism (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...is not a satisfactory position. We need to clear the fog rapidly. I commend the Minister on having a review, but there is work to be done by the Government to have a much clearer vision of where our landing zone might be.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether a land use strategy is being developed within which aspirations for forestry, the protection of biodiversity, climate, renewables and the bioeconomy could be evolved in a coherent manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34169/23]