Results 161-180 of 1,069,350 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Garret Ahearn OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Peter Burke OR speaker:Violet-Anne Wynne OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:John Brady OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Helen McEntee OR speaker:Marc MacSharry OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Martin Browne) in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Peter Burke: My Government has put together a lobbying register so everything is transparent so the Deputy can ask a question here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Paul Murphy: I am asking the Minister about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Peter Burke: It is on the public record. All minutes of those meetings are available on the public record, again, through work my party has done to ensure it is transparent and all decisions are transparent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Peter Burke: Some data centres with new technology use water while others use air. The EPA regulates their usage and it is important that it does so effectively. The corporate sustainability reporting directive and reporting requirements are coming down the line. We have signed up to the directive and the data centres will have to comply with it in terms of the measures and parameters the Deputy has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Peter Burke: Public employment is vast in terms of what area you are looking at. The population of our State is growing rapidly. Looking at how much we have grown over recent years, it is quite significant. The public service will have to grow to match the services that our citizens require.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Peter Burke: Retrofitting is a huge line of work. Many areas where people oppose having various levies to try to fund our carbon changes will be critical. I know from the midlands how much more we need to put into retrofitting. It is a huge challenge for us, at massive scale.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of Climate Action Plan 2024: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (24 Oct 2024)
Peter Burke: Local authorities, absolutely, yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: No apologies have been received. We will go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: I wish everyone a good afternoon. I welcome everyone to our public meeting. I remind members of the constitutional requirements that they must be physically present within the confines of the place which Parliament has chosen to sit, namely, Leinster House, in order to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where he or she is not adhering to this...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Pat Buckley: No.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: In response to the petitioner Tusla has said that while HIQA does not place sanctions on Tusla, if it finds improvement must be made to service, it gets Tusla to complete a complaints plan which is followed up subsequently and inspection reports are posted on HIQA's website. I suggest we ask the petitioner for their response and go back to Tusla about the database. Did we ask about the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Pat Buckley: Agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: The second petition is No. P00012/23 - “Justice [and] Safety” - C.J. Gaffney: We are calling on the Government to compensate us out of the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) which was offered at our meeting in Brussels and confirmed by the documents and radio interview contained in the links below by Irish MEPs and senior EU officials, considering the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Pat Buckley: This is going on a long time. It was 1992 or something when this started. I will take up to 2011, I think. The document here has 41 pages. I see the work that has gone into this. The way this family has been treated is diabolical. I will read out some quotes because it is interesting that they are still fighting in 2024. I am reading from p.11: When we met the top two officials from...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Someone needs to answer for the fact that this unsafe vessel was registered as safe in the first place when it clearly was not. This family have been let down apparently every step of the way by the system because we have another situation here in which the buck seems to be passed from one to another all over Europe. As the Deputy stated, we know there are boats out there that are of the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Pat Buckley: Yes.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Do we go to the OPLA or do we go outside for legal advice?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Pat Buckley: Does that fall within the remit of the committee?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Martin Browne: Will we go to the OPLA first and see what advice it can give us? If not, it might be able to point us in the direction-----
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Petitions Received (24 Oct 2024)
Pat Buckley: I probably have a source as well, but I would prefer not to say-----