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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on capital investment projects in the ATU Mayo campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9736/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on measures to improve the backlogs in craft apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9737/24]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: On the points raised previously, I echo the sentiment around secondary roads where speed limits are probably in and around 80 km/h. We have seen the statistics that more than 70% of fatalities are on these secondary roads and that they occur frequently on weekends. That does not get away from the response the Government is taking in respect of TII's evaluation around black spots but unless...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Amendments Nos. 6 and 10 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Amendments Nos. 7 to 9, inclusive, are related, and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the Road Traffic Bill 2024 and has made amendments thereto.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Absolutely. Does she want to answer now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank Ms Hone and I thank Senator Cummins for allowing me to substitute in this committee matter which is certainly a really difficult issue in my own county of Mayo. I thank our witnesses for being here and for advocating for all of the homeowners in each of their counties and for those who have been seriously impacted, their lives destroyed and their mental health being challenged daily....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Really, it is the issue of payment and the delays associated with those needing to be processed in a more substantial manner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Can I just ask with regard to the area of disadvantage for existing applicants who were on the previous scheme and who then transitioned onto the new scheme? Mr. O'Donnell talked about the €15,000 for accommodation and the €5,000 storage benefits on existing applicants missing out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: The expectation was that this would be seamless for those who had been approved and would have been tested, that the would have been automatically moved on to the new DCB. Mr. O'Donnell is saying that is not the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Blocks Scheme: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Is the paperwork the barrier or is it just-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Minister for attending along with her officials. Certainly, the past few days have been nothing short of extraordinary, and for the wrong reasons. Once again, we have the RTÉ drama escalating into another fiasco. At what point did the Minister begin to doubt the capacity of the former chair to lead the board and to initiate the much-needed change and reforms within RTÉ?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Do you not think she was worth persisting with?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: She was a woman of integrity and of vast experience. She had presided over the RTÉ debacle for the past 15 months. Was the writing on the wall for her before the "Prime Time" interview?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: You said you were shocked that RTÉ "Prime Time" was aware of the information that was withheld by the chair. Have you initiated any inquiry into how it got that information?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Are conversations with the Minister, the director general, and the chair held in a private capacity?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: How many people were in the room during the two meetings last week?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: Do you feel there was a complete failure in the duties of all parties who attended that meeting to protect the information in it and the questions that were asked?