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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: In a slight departure from the triple lock, I will bring the Taoiseach back to Bere Island off west Cork. The Department of Defence has an important training facility there for naval personnel. Unfortunately, there is an issue with Department of Defence-owned infrastructure there, namely, a slipway at Lawrence Cove. It is an important slipway used by naval personnel but also by a car ferry...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with defence will next meet. [23897/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I do not say this lightly, but when it comes to our islanders and healthcare, they are treated as second-class citizens. This is especially the case in the west Cork islands and I will explain why. On Bere Island, which is near Castletownbere, at one point they had two full-time nurses. They had nursing cover on the island for 24 hours a day, seven days per week, but they now only have one...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [23895/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach; he is looking good in the Chair. I also thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue. Primary schools principals right throughout Ireland are screaming in an effort to retain their special education teacher, SET, allocations. The new criteria are flawed and are not working. I know this because schools throughout my constituency are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. We are hearing that the number of special education teachers has increased and that the allocations are increasing but I am telling him that this is not the reality on the ground. The fundamental point is that schools are being punished for doing their job correctly and for improving numeracy and literacy. We need to go back to taking account of those complex...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The meeting will commence in public session. I welcome everybody. Could I get members' agreement that if officials want to participate or make contributions, that that is allowed? It is allowed. I thank members very much. The purpose of the meeting today is to have a discussion on the draft national energy and climate plan and the national long-term strategy. On behalf of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement and for outlining the strategy and the plan. We will now move to the members. It is agreed that each member will have five minutes for questions and answers? Agreed. The first member to indicate was Deputy Whitmore.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Deputy Whitmore has one more minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. We are going to move on now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: We are going to move on because the Deputy has had seven or eight minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I am sure we will come back to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The Minister can elaborate on that further later. We will move on now to Deputy O'Rourke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: We will move on, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister. From my perspective, on the NECP, the Minister said there were only 40 submissions. Is that because this is essentially just a document of collated plans, there is actually nothing of substance in it apart from what is in the plans themselves, and that the real document or plan we should be focusing on is the climate action plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Is there anything in the long-term strategy of substance or is that essentially the same kind of thing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Coming back to the EPA report this morning, the reason Deputy Whitmore is animated is because it is not great viewing or hearing when the EPA states that the maximum we can do with all the measures is 29%, which falls well short. It also alluded to the fact that there were some strategies it could not cater for because it said there was a lack of detail. It mentioned agriculture, which I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Finalisation of Draft National Energy and Climate Plan and the National Long-Term Strategy: Discussion (28 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I wish to touch on some of what I describe as the easy wins. Many of us here are a bit frustrated that some of the measures we feel should be achieved at a faster rate are not being achieved at a faster rate. One of them is electrification of the fleet. I know that electrification of the fleet is not the entire answer to reducing emissions in transport but I genuinely feel and I...