Results 521-540 of 1,043,326 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Michael McGrath OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Brian Leddin) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We can do zero carbon freight movement in canals into urban centres. This is what they were designed for, and it can decarbonise freight journeys. Is there any strategy? I know it is slower, that it is an infrastructure of the past and all the rest of it, but have there been any case studies done or any research carried out to see if it might be viable? They are moving stuff in Britain on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That would be, in fact, the traditional usage of a canal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there a unit specifically towards freight within that work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On the other thing that our canals could usefully be used for, my cousin is a carpenter. His first house was a houseboat. He bought one, fitted it out and he and his partner lived very happily there for many years. When they started their family, they decided that maybe a canal was not the best place for a toddler, which I can understand. According to Waterways Ireland's figures, we have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There are 32. Can I translate that into there being 32 households on our canal infrastructure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: However, they have not applied for the residential extended mooring permit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is the figure of 150 closer to what Mr. McDonagh would understand the number of households to be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Okay, but Mr. McDonagh reckons then that only approximately 20% of those are paying the residential extended mooring permit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has Waterways Ireland undertaken any sort of study on the potential carrying capacity for people who could live on canals? These are delicate networks from the point of view of pollution, etc. We are in the middle of a housing crisis, so I am thinking about a single person or a two-person family. These are potential solutions. I do not think this is kooky. I do not think it is crazy. In...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Why would we need planning?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Can Mr. Rowe give a broad indication of the scale of ambition here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is that figure in addition to the 150 you-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I warned the witnesses that a quotation from Patrick Kavanagh was probably incoming: Commemorate me thus beautifully Where by a lock niagarously roars Is Paddy Kavanagh's bench behind a fence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. Was the cost of this fencing met from Waterways Ireland's own resources?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: And from nowhere else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is talk of the use of hostile architecture, such as spikes. When we put together the canal recreation, activation and animation plan, I hope that hostile architecture, such as spikes, is not part of that plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is the canal recreation, activation and animation plan consistent? The witnesses gave their response to the climate action plan, but there is now also the national biodiversity action plan, which is on a statutory footing. Will those two plans go hand in hand? Whatever about the climate aspect of the canals - and that aspect is not inconsiderable - the biodiversity aspect of is far richer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a couple of more specific questions but I will come back in later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I refer to the Block 19 graving docks. I think Waterways Ireland was considering selling it at one point for a housing development or some such thing. What is the status?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Many of my questions will be, "What is the timeline for that?" What is the timeline for that?