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Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Paul Murphy: We in People Before Profit welcome the passing of the nature restoration law. If we had an MEP, which we hope to have at least one of after the forthcoming European election, we would have attempted to strengthen it but would have then voted for it. I will set out the reasons we would have done so. First, it is very simple. It has been laid out by a bunch of people so at least the basic...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have to confess I have not had enough time to fully prepare for this debate. There are a number of comments I would like to make because I have been listening to the debate for the past hour. I do not think anybody argues against biodiversity. Nature restoration has a kind of broad feelgood factor but I wonder how much understanding some of the people talking have of the complexity of...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Seán Haughey: I warmly welcome the vote of approval for the nature restoration law in the European Parliament last week. As we know, this law proposes to restore at least 20% of the EU's land and sea areas by 2030 and repair all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050. It will involve the restoration of terrestrial, coastal and freshwater ecosystems, including wetlands, grasslands, forests, rivers and...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: Where to start? Speaking as someone who has worked and studied in this area since I was 17, the debate so far this evening has been incredibly difficult to listen to. When we have the Chair of a committee talking about the sole purpose of a river being to drain water away from farmlands, I wonder whether we need to have an ecological education programme within the Houses of the Oireachtas....

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Jackie Cahill: Last week, the national restoration law passed in Brussels. I was listening to the Minister of State's speech in my office. He said we have 24 months now to get what we need in place for this measure to work effectively. I will be working closely with him during these 24 months to ensure that farmers are not the ones who pay for nature restoration. I was interested to hear the Minister of...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome our visitors to the Public Gallery. This discussion is particularly pertinent to their future.

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Gerald Nash: I also welcome our visitors in the Public Gallery. I can see that they are all watching and listening intently because what we are debating here today is about our collective future. On Tuesday, last, 27 February, we witnessed an historic vote in the European Parliament. MEPs in Strasbourg voted to approve the first-ever nature restoration law. It is the first new major EU biodiversity...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: The climate and biodiversity crises stand among the greatest challenges facing humanity. Action is needed and there are two ways in which we can try to take those necessary actions. We can either do so in collaboration with communities, workers, farmers and other affected sectors or we can try a top-down approach, finger-pointing, condescension and the imposition of measures with little...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the protection and restoration of nature and the need to make progress in Ireland. Sinn Féin completely supports and prioritises the need to protect, restore, and enhance nature. The scale of the crisis that confronts biodiversity cannot and should not be understated. Sinn Féin's rejection last week of the nature restoration law was not a...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Claire Kerrane: I am very glad to have the opportunity to speak on the nature restoration law and, as my party spokesperson on agriculture, to very clearly outline our position. In recent days I have been quite bemused at the reaction to our vote in the European Parliament. From the very first discussion on the proposed nature restoration law at EU level, we engaged proactively at every point. We met the...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I join my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, in very much welcoming the historical decision to proceed with the nature restoration law in Europe. It is desperately needed because our natural systems are in absolute distress. They are under great pressure. In the past 50 years we have lost half of all wildlife in the natural world by invertebrate body mass weight. This is not...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Correct.

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The timelines are roughly similar. To go back to what the Minister of State said, this review of land is not to tell an individual farmer or forester this is what they must do or else. It is to try to get an assessment of what is happening and to try to make sure we align our incentives with rural development, the future of farming and the protection of the natural world and system. The...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Gabhaim buíochas as an deis chun caint faoin dlí athchóirithe nádúir. I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on the nature restoration law. I will be sharing time with the Minister, Deputy Ryan. I will take 15 minutes and he will take five. As Minister of State with responsibility for nature, it is very important for me to hear the views of Deputies from...

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I hate to interrupt the Minister of State but are copies of his script available?

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will get copies and send them across.

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I think Members would like a copy.

Nature Restoration Law: Statements (7 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: My officials are listening. I am sure they will get copies across now. Before I speak to my vision for the nature restoration law and the opportunities it represents for those individuals, their communities and the wider rural economy, I will deal with some of the misinformation that has been at play in this debate. That is what it has been: misinformation and, dare I say it, in some...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: Is the building complete?

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