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A year in Review. It has been a hugely productive 2024 as Minister for nature and heritage. We played a vital role in saving the Nature Restoration Law, I announced a new National Park, closed 🇪🇺 birds case, record funding for nature and heritage.

Take a bow Malcolm Noonan Incredible amount of progress & work done to protect and restore nature, 2 new national parks, marine protection increased, statutory Biodiversity Action Plan, revived the National Parks and Wildlife Service Hopefully a Seanad role now to continue that work. Vote1 for nature

Consistent support, increased investment and expansion of our railway for regional, intercity & suburban services must be a transport priority for next government. Safe, reliable, frequent & affordable rail provides societal, economic, environmental & climate emissions benefits.

⁦BT Young Scientist⁩ is full of young brilliant minds with #Climate ideas, inventing, researching how things work. Good piece on how short term politics works & often fails the long term stuff …these are the issues the new government needs to deal with irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

An interesting and significant judgement I think, the concept was debated during committee stage of Planning and Development Act 2024. Judge accuses An Bord Pleanála of being ‘petrified’ of renewable energy projects | Business Post businesspost.ie/news/judge-acc…

A little side project, the Irish Election Manifesto Archive, also has every Programme for Government since 1989. I've just uploaded the new draft Programme for Government between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and some independents. All here: pidgeon.ie/manifestos/pfg…

I did quite a bit on public transport improvements for #Wicklow but I didn’t get a railway built from Bray to Glendalough! This is actually for a new Connecting Ireland bus route incl Roundwood, Laragh, Annamoe - consultation now open The Irish Sun nationaltransport.ie/news/nta-opens…

Classifying as ‘strategic’ doesn’t confer advantage, SIDs still have to comply with planning regs, it just goes straight to ABP for similar but longer process. DAA can address invalidation reasons & reapply to FCC. Changing legislation would take longer. businesspost.ie/news/big-read-…

This much-used cargo bike was stolen yesterday in Dun Laoghaire. There are very few of this model around so should be easy to spot. Reply/message if you have any leads & we will pass on to owner. Dún Laoghaire Central Residents Association DunLaoghaireTown.ie Dún Laoghaire Tidy Towns Tivoli Road Safe Mobility DLR Cycling

My last field trip as Minister. The water was calm at first light as we headed out to the black islands on Lough Ree. Recently acquired by the state, the islands are being managed by Breeding Waders EIP Project to help revive numbers of our most endangered birds.

Say hello to your Green Team in the Oireachtas! Today, Malcolm Noonan has been elected to Seanad Éireann on the Agricultural Panel, topping the poll and being elected on the first count, no less! Together, we will work to bring strong green representation to the Oireachtas 🌿

Delighted to attend the launch of ⁦Joe McHugh⁩ book last night. One of the most decent and genuine I’ve met in political life. Looking forward to reading his Gaeilge learning journey as a newly appointed Minister Bhí sé alright! siopagaeilge.ie/products/beidh…

Interesting & honest appraisal of housing - the complexities, competing interests, cost v supply, renters v owners, landlords, political soundbites, interest rates, capacity and a little on climate at the end. ‘Is there light at the end of the tunnel? No’ podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/ins…

There’s our L14 local #Bray town bus up and running. I’m getting good feedback from users. It was a challenge but worthwhile objective we achieved to deliver better public transport across our towns & cities. I hope the new Govt will continue the work & investment in bus & rail

⁦Matt Cooper⁩ writing about ⁦Barry Andrews MEP⁩ writing about a housing finance idea from ⁦Green Party Ireland⁩. (It didn’t get as much attention as planning exemptions for back garden living) but I note the private investors don’t like it 👀

It feels like years since it's been here

As the COP16 Biodiversity Conference resumes in Rome, we remain at war with nature. We need a meaningful debate in the Oireachtas to tackle biodiversity loss on an all-island basis to call a truce. Malcolm Noonan

Green Party Leader Roderic O'Gorman calls on Government to increase its climate ambition as Fiscal Council shows the huge cost of inaction. greenparty.ie/news/ogorman-g…