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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the work the Minister of State has undertaken since the passage of the Act. I must say, however, that his Department continues to view the circular economy through the very narrow lens of waste and levies on waste materials. That is evidenced in his own presentation but also in the plan which he recently presented, where the ambition is zero growth in waste per head of population...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Where is the strategy for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Two years ago we were talking about this Bill that became an Act. We were talking about the EPA. These are the very same things that we are talking about and I worry the scope to do something different is on a long lead. We need to nail down dates for each of these elements. If you go into a building site today, the smaller building sites are not separating their material. Everything is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Does the Minister of State want to comment on green procurement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: As the Minister of State certainly knows, the practice has been that it is the procurers who decide what it is they are procuring and they create the need for the framework. If they do not embed the need for green principles, it will not make it into the framework and they will not be found to be non-compliant because it was not specified in the first place. The view has always been that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy: Discussion (30 Apr 2024)
Richard Bruton: Will the Minister of State or someone in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform let us know our baseline, say, in 2023 or whatever it was before this started and how we are progressing? Will there be some measures that will show us that information? I do not imagine than an awful lot of textiles are being procured, and maybe there are in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I agree with the comments of the Chair. I would like to have clarity on two issues. The Minister said this is for the remainder of the year but is it the case that the fees are waived for all of 2024? Second, if a local authority has been charging these fees up to now, was it correct to do so, in particular if it has been charging them for the first three or four months of the year? Will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I am asking for the current position.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: If businesses had their chairs and tables out for the first four months, they would have been paying the fees for the first third of the year. Is that the situation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2024: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (30 Apr 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: Many businesses have chairs and tables outside all year round, so why was the waiver not in place from 1 January 2024? Was there an allocation for it in the Estimates for 2024?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: I will restate a few points. I acknowledge that the reports were made by a UN committee. The Government also has a position. We cannot always take everything as read. On the process and the vote the Deputy mentioned, I will provide exact clarity. It is important to recall that Ireland signed up to the OECD two-pillar solution in October 2021. We intend to follow through on our...
- Report on Politically Exposed Persons: Motion (25 Apr 2024)
- Report on Politically Exposed Persons: Motion (25 Apr 2024)
John McGuinness: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, and Reform, and Taoiseach entitled "Report on Politically Exposed Persons", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 13th December, 2023. I thank members of the committee and all those who appeared before us, including departmental officials, to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
International Agreements
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Joan Collins: I note that the Minister for Finance is not in the Chamber.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, he is not.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Joan Collins: Can I defer it?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: If the Minister was not going to be here, you should have been informed.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Joan Collins: I was not. I checked with my office to make sure. I was at a meeting at 2.15 p.m. and I checked in my office before I walked in the door.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (25 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That is most unsatisfactory. I apologise that you have had that experience. You should not have had it. The Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, has arrived in the nick of time. He is here on his white steed to save the day.