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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: So I hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Young people and students working within the healthcare system are going to watch very carefully to see what we have to say and whether we are prepared to put our money where our mouths are. On this side of the House we certainly are. I will send on details of the individual case to the Minister. I hope the Taoiseach takes the point, which is made in good faith, that it is in all of our...
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Now we will take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. I call Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would first like to address information which I placed on the Dáil record last week relating to an incident where a Sinn Féin representative sent inappropriate text messages to a young person. It was then my understanding that the young person was 17 years of age because of the information provided on his application form when he applied to join Ógra Shinn Féin. That...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Our student nurses and midwives are incredible. They do invaluable nursing work while on placement on wards and, in fact, they keep our hospitals going. They do a minimum of 28 hours a week and they work far beyond their training duties. The McHugh review of 2022 addressed pay for intern nurses. However, the new subsistence allowance for first-to-third-year student nurses does not go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Alan Farrell sends his apologies. He is unable to attend this part of the session. The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have a discussion with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, in advance of COP29. On my behalf and that of the committee, I congratulate the Minister on the recent announcement that he will be one half of the ministerial pairing leading the negotiations on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members of the committee for inviting me to discuss COP29, which is scheduled to commence in Baku, Azerbaijan, in less than three weeks. I recently attended the pre-COP meetings in Baku, during which I was honoured to be formally announced by the COP29 presidency as one half of the ministerial pairing leading negotiations on adaptation. I thank the Chair for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I agree. We have an obligation on the international stage, wherever we are, to raise the concern we have about what is happening in the Middle East. I do not want in any way to minimise that, but we have similar concerns about what is happening in Ukraine, Sudan, South Sudan and elsewhere. However, "Yes" is the answer. We would look for whatever opportunity we can. We need to remember...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: One of the bigger gaps was not identifying the source of the problem, which is the use of fossil fuels. As I said, that was in some way rectified last year in the UAE when we started to focus on that. That goes across many areas but also includes military use. I do not have the figures globally but I recall that in the US, the military would probably be the largest consumer of fossil fuels.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: That is just one example. We could say the same of the Russian army. I accept that military use of fossil fuels is a significant part of the problem. In international negotiations the key issue will be how much we can afford to support the most vulnerable countries, if we were to divert some of the increased spending that is going towards defence. While we need that, including in our...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister. What is his assessment of how changes in the geopolitical landscape, to put it at its most euphemistic, the output of war, the increasing tensions, the increasing sense of retaliatory measures between different states which we look to to co-operate in the context of reducing emissions, have put a dampener on progress that can be made at COP29? Are these countries...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: The Deputy asked if where we stand geopolitically hinders this. We all agree that geopolitically the world is in a very bad place with what is happening in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere, and also the fear of impending potential trade wars with protectionist policies on the rise. There is also a deep injustice in the current financing system, particularly for the new industrial revolution that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Brian Leddin: I thank the Minister and Deputy Bruton. We will go to Senator Higgins, who is joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I thank the Senator. I was very proud we were asked to do the job we are being asked to do on adaptation because as she says, it is central. It is the most important issue, especially for the most developing countries, because that is where they need the resources most immediately. Their definition of "adaptation" is much broader than what others might see. It is not just a flood defence,...