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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: It is essential that we take this more seriously. The reality is that releasing people to attend courses does not deliver improved leadership at local level. Leadership at local level is about leaders having the tools to critically examine what they are doing, to learn from best examples elsewhere, to bring a team with them to make changes, to monitor whether that is happening and to give...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the provision made for leadership development at all levels of the Garda force and how leadership development is benchmarked and reported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8348/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: In any organisation the quality of leadership is the single biggest factor determining the successful outcomes, whether it be in enterprises or schools. It may be said that some leaders are born, but most leaders are created and the skills are learned. We spend too little on developing leadership. I would like to hear an audit of the situation in the Garda Síochána.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I welcome some of the detail but I think there is a problem here. Allocating 2% to total training, including initial training, is certainly not enough. Under the heading of Enabling Curiosity and Learning, the Policing Authority in its most recent review reported that review of performance is inconsistent and does not focus on outcomes. It points to a gulf with the experience learnt from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how it is intended to phase in the new community safety plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8347/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current rate of take-up of new farm methods which he regards as key to the Government climate ambitions and the step up needed by 2030 to meet the targets. [8346/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered new measures in the likely context that the sectors for which he has responsibility cannot meet the targets in the climate plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8345/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I congratulate the Minister on the progress he has made. I recall when I had the climate brief back in whenever it was - 2019 - and the outlook of the transport Department was much different from what it is today in terms of trying to achieve change. That said, it is disappointing, as the Minister admitted in his statement, that there is no guarantee that the transport targets will be hit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Are new partners needed? Look at all the supermarkets. Look at all the locations that are providing business. That location is near the Garda station and not much else, as far as I could see. A mobility hub ought to be in a place where there are a whole lot of partners sharing the promotion of this as a concept.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Finally, because I am probably abusing the clock, the merit of a circular economy strategy is that you get a lot of those players into the same room and you start to put pressure on more employers to take up the smarter travel mark or more supermarkets to start to engage with the location of mobility hubs so they can be seen to be part of the strategy. It is the partnership piece. It is all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I have just a brief question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I am interested in the Minister's point about building capacity for some of the bigger shifts we need to make. I absolutely agree with that, but I am interested to hear his view on his understanding of the planning bottlenecks that remain. They do seem to be the key issue in the context of BusConnects and renewable energy. Time and again, that is where the capacity constraint is now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: The original location was Clonshaugh but it died a death.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Do not take me as an authority. I have not heard-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: That is my understanding. A planning limbo is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: I agree. We are doing the legislation, which we have beefed up, but as the Minister rightly said, the issue is judicial review. The case was made by the climate council that in other countries these projects would be done. These are not countries that are autocracies. I am wondering-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: Do we need some sort of critical path analysis that could be done by a whole-of-government team to look at why so many of these things fall off the radar for whatever reason? This is so we get down to a few net changes we could make to the process. We all say renewables are the great white hope for the country, but we then all wring our hands every other week because something is not moving...