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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: I think the other issues were addressed to Dr. Jackson, and I will give him some latitude in responding to Senator O'Reilly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: I invite Mr. Jackson to respond to Deputy Whitmore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. Jackson. He can submit further observations or elaborate on his comments in writing if he wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: Yes. I advise the witnesses to send answers in writing to the committee secretariat, which will then circulate them to all the members of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Cronin has a minute remaining if she wish to reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: I call Deputy O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: Does Dr. Jackson have a comment to make on the issue of sanctions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Dr. Jackson. Everyone who indicated has spoken. We will now have a second round of questions and we will group them together and then revert to the witnesses. If members raise their hands to indicate I will take questions from three members, namely Senators Boylan and Higgins and Deputy Devlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: We will take questions from a few members and then revert to Dr. Jackson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: The Senator has asked a lot of questions. I call Deputy Devlin for the last question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. Jackson. As no one else is indicating, I will ask a question. There has been considerable discussion on the make up of the Climate Change Advisory Council. Do Professor Sweeney or Dr. Jackson have recommendations on who the ex officiomembers should be, if not the three outlined in the draft?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)
Brian Leddin: We are out of time. On behalf of the committee I thank Dr. Jackson and Professor Sweeney for their attendance. In spite of the time constraints, it was a worthwhile and thorough engagement. As I mentioned previously, the committee is open to receiving further written submissions from the witnesses. Such submissions would be very welcome. As the committee has set a deadline of 30 October...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: This meeting has been convened to consider the Revised Estimates for Vote 29, excluding programme A, which relates to communications and comes under the remit of the Select Committee on Transport and Communications Networks. It will be considered by that committee. I welcome the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his officials. I thank the...
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: We will commence with questions on programme B. In posing their questions, I ask members to indicate clearly the subhead to which they are referring within the programme and to limit their questions to one subhead at a time, allowing other members with questions on that subhead to speak before moving on to another subhead. The same procedure will apply for the remaining programmes.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: Do other members have questions on programme B?
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: We will move on to programme C.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: On subhead C6, the answer to my question may be similar to that given to Deputy O'Rourke. I refer to the subscriptions to international organisations.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: We will move on to programme D.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: We will put that to the Oireachtas joint committee when we discuss the work programme, which we should be doing in the coming weeks. On programme D I see no other members wishing to come in. We will move on to programme E, environment and waste management.
- Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (22 Oct 2020) Brian Leddin: Does anybody else wish to come in on programme E?