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Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...climate crisis. I will focus on the motion. As Deputies will be aware, the 2018 Act requires ISIF to divest from companies engaged in exploration, extraction or refinement of fossil fuels, which includes coal, oil, peat, natural gas or any equivalents. A fossil fuel undertaking is defined as being in the business of "exploration for or extraction or refinement of a fossil fuel where such...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...length of the road network within a local authority's area of responsibility, with some account taken of traffic. As the Deputy says, the matter of the construction and improvement of road on peatlands has always been a very challenging task in geotechnical engineering. Rampart roads, which are generally narrow raised roads without verges, can be constructed over peat, but particular...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (9 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...the condition of this road, though I suspect that the Deputy has managed to bring those concerns to Kildare County Council by his own good office. As for the question of managing roads over peat, I did not give the Deputy this additional detail. The Department established recently a working group which includes representatives from local authorities with experience of managing roads...