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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Thank you, Dr. Ó Cinnéide, for your opening statement and for linking it back to the sessions we have had so far. That is very helpful for us. I will invite members to indicate to ask questions. I remind members that we have to adjourn the meeting at 12.15 p.m. to allow the next session to start so I will move it along as quickly as possible. Dr. Ó Cinnéide referred...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: As we have to move on, I ask the Deputy to be very brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Deputy Kenny. Senator Pauline O'Reilly will be followed by Deputy Whitmore, Deputy Bruton, Deputy O'Rourke and Senator Boylan, if we have time to get them all in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. O'Donnell. I want to give time to Deputy O'Rourke and Senator Boylan to contribute, so I ask Dr. Ó Cinnéide to be as quick as he can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Dr. Ó Cinnéide. There are approximately six minutes remaining. I ask Deputy O'Rourke and Senator Boylan to pose their questions one after the other. We will then go back to our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: It was a recommendation of a report conducted by this committee last year that the Arterial Drainage Act be reviewed. We will keep pushing in that regard. It is now 12.15 p.m. Despite it being a short session, it has been incredibly informative and helpful for us. I thank our guests for being so clear, concise and direct in their answers. It is going to help us significantly as we get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Alan Farrell. On behalf of the committee, I welcome members of the Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss to the meeting: Niamh, Elsie, Oisín, Eleanor, Conor and David. I also welcome our visitors in the Public Gallery. By way of introduction, my name is Brian Leddin. I am a Green Party TD for Limerick. I was elected to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: Before we try to answer that question, I thank Niamh for facilitating this discussion with her colleagues from the Children and Young People's Assembly on Biodiversity Loss. The points that have been made are very pertinent and important for us to hear. We appreciate the delegation voicing their points directly to us. I invite members not just to ask questions but also to answer the very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: If our guests want time to think about their answers, we can go to some other members first and then go back to them to answer a few of those questions together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will go back to Niamh now and she can delegate as she wishes. A few questions were asked. I will get to Senator O’Reilly’s question, but Deputy Kenny’s was about the guests’ engagement with adults and whether they feel adults are sceptical about this process. He also talked about their role and the importance of their voice. Deputy Bruton asked a similar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: That was a very thorough answer to Deputy Bruton. David is very at home in this committee. He could give us all a run for our money here. I thank him for that answer. Does anybody else wish to come in on those questions? Conor may go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Conor. That was very well put. I want that message to go out to everybody outside this committee room and across the whole political system. It is such a critically important point. It is not about the never-never; it is actually about the now. Does Niamh wish to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I thank Niamh for that. She has very much answered Senator O'Reilly's question about the importance of having youth citizen assemblies. This the first one we have had so it is certainly something the Oireachtas should consider as we go forward for other citizens' assemblies. Senator O'Reilly also asked whether Niamh had any particular recommendations she feels passionately about. She...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will go to another member and then maybe we will go back to the witnesses. Deputy O'Rourke is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Brian Leddin: I will summarise the questions for the witnesses. Deputy Whitmore asked whether you are worried about biodiversity and whether this process you have been involved in helped to make you feel a bit better and feel there is a way forward and there are solutions. Deputy O'Rourke's focus was on transport and what you think about increasing public transport and opportunities for walking and...