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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not aware until a bus driver who works for Dublin Bus contacted me that a major transport conference is taking place in Dublin this week. It is the Transport Research Arena conference, which I believe the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, are at to discuss sustainable transport. The driver asked me why there are no bus drivers at the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: There is a growing movement around the world, including on this island, to defend the rights of nature. Increasingly, people understand that without the protection of the rights of nature, there cannot be a human right to a healthy environment. Human rights and the rights of nature go hand in hand. On Thursday, campaigners for the rights of nature will gather at 11 a.m. outside the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach has six minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I will do my very best. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am learning that these questions have covered a wider area than that covered by the tabled questions, which concern when we will hold the next meeting of the Cabinet committee. It will be scheduled shortly. I thank Deputy O'Sullivan for his kind wishes. I look forward to working with him. I thank him also for highlighting...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: Onshore.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: Onshore; my apologies. I will get the Deputy an update on the wind guidelines. I am aware that the Attorney General's advice was being sought. I will ask when we should expect the outcome in that regard and revert to the Deputy directly. I learned a long time ago that it is easier to offer Deputy Ó Murchú a meeting than not do so, so I advise Uisce Éireann to follow the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Cabinet Committees
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [7944/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [8950/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [9141/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Mick Barry: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [12452/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [13013/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [10625/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [10628/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [14091/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Bríd Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [15185/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [16355/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 10, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on the environment and climate action was formally reconstituted last week. It oversees implementation of the ambitious programme for Government commitments in regard to the environment and climate change. The committee has met on 21 occasions since July 2020, most recently on 22 February. I intend to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Catherine Connolly: As there are many Deputies looking to contribute, I ask for their co-operation. Each speaker will have one and a half minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: I congratulate the Taoiseach on his election. I wish him the best of luck in the months ahead. I raise the issue of emissions. The Taoiseach said in his response that we have, fortunately, seen a reduction in overall emissions. However, one area in which emissions are on the increase is transport. Electric vehicles, EVs, will play a key role in reducing emissions in transport,...