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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (13 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position regarding the number of schools in Wicklow that have completed solar panel projects under the free school solar scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25843/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (13 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position regarding the number of schools in County Wicklow that have initiated applications for solar panel funding under the free national roll-out but have not yet had works commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25844/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for the lesson on diggers, excavators and plant hire. I assure anyone who has an interest in that type of business that climate action will not affect it. Houses can be built with low-carbon technology. In fact, the housing committee is going to visit some low-carbon technology modular housing in September. I would be delighted to invite Deputy Healy-Rae to the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is rubbish. The Deputy is not even speaking to the amendments. Come on Ceann Comhairle, that is not on. I have listened to the Deputy's rubbish all night.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is rubbish.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 220: To delete paragraph (p) and substitute the following: “(p) integration and achievement of the national climate objective and relevant climate action related policies and measures of the Government, including those prepared pursuant to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015, into regional, spatial and economic strategies,...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 168 provides for the deletion of the date for the review to be completed, namely 28 May 2024. It makes sense to delete that date because it has passed. I note from the most recent Government statement on the matter that the draft national planning framework will be out for consultation this month and that amendments will be made in August, with a view to publishing in...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I have two minutes rather than seven minutes because I spoke earlier on these amendments, but I will take only two minutes anyway.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I spoke to this grouping of amendments, because I spoke to my amendment No. 137, and now I am coming back in for my two-minute contribution.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I will take only two minutes anyway.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome amendment No. 140, which seeks to substitute "the integration of the pursuit and achievement of the national climate objective and National Biodiversity Action Plan" into the national planning framework. That enshrines it at the very highest level in our planning and plan-led system. That is a real strengthening of the wording in this Bill to protect climate and the environment....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Project Boyne school building initiative; how this bundle is being progressed; if it is to be split, how that will proceed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25641/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 113: In page 62, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: " "community garden" means an area of land made available to members of the community for collective gardening purposes for personal or local consumption of produce and is operated otherwise than with a view to making profit, to be prescribed in regulations as "community garden" meaning an area of land...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I move amendment No. 123: In page 64, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: " "transport infrastructure" is infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians, public transport and road traffic;". This is unnecessary, based on what the Minister has said.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the Minister's response on the transport infrastructure. It was merely put in just to address any confusion that might arise and maybe to make that a simpler definition. With regard to the way it was set out, alphabetically or otherwise, it looks at road use in a very sensible way and if investment is required for other road users we will look at it that way. If it is investment...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Now, Deputy Healy-Rae-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: Connecting Ireland has been a massive success in Kerry and-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: I believe I have seen the Deputy tweet about it. I saw him welcoming greenways and investment in footpaths and buses and all sorts of green investment going on in County Kerry. Any why not. It should go on all across the county. I am sure the Deputy welcomes it as much as every other rural Deputy does as well. I thank the Deputy for raising the matter. The Minister did not get a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: The Minister gave Kerry a load of buses as well, did he not?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Steven Matthews: It was going well.