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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I ask the Minister of State to put his professional hat on for a moment. A planning court is something we discussed in another committee in the recent past. I refer to the capacity to refer these matters, in particular when it comes to judicial reviews of decisions made by our planners, specifically the strategic infrastructure planning applications that are going through, of which there...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I mean in terms of time. A judicial review of transport infrastructure processes can take months. A case can take six months to be heard and the process itself can take whatever amount of time is necessary to hear the case. There is a need for us to fast-track that process in some way. I refer to the establishment of a planning wing, a planning court, within the Judiciary to try to get us...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I want to mention two other items aside from the airport, one of which is the reallocation of funding for the A5, which the Minister of State mentioned in his opening remarks. Could he give us a brief overview as to how that arose? Before I comment on the airport, the Minister of State spoke with Deputy O'Rourke earlier about capacity issues and the responsibility of the NTA and others to...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. I will conclude by taking the opportunity to revisit the conversation we had a little earlier in relation to Dublin Airport, as this is our last committee meeting scheduled before we presume the plug is pulled on the Thirty-third Dáil. It is necessary for me to commend the Minister of State's frankness in his remarks as to how we got here. As I have said...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I understand it took seven months for the DAA to come back with some additional information.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: How would the Minister of State characterise something like that, when we are faced with a series of events and the airport operator is telling us we have impediments that should not be in place, even though the operator itself is causing the delays?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: To be fair, Minister of State, you did it. You did it in a very indirect way, but you did it.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State. We have gone slightly off topic in this Estimates meeting but it is a very worthwhile conversation to have on Dublin Airport and aviation in the country. The Minister of State is quite right about regional airports. I would interlink the all-island strategic rail review with the future capacity of some airports, particularly Shannon.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for their attendance and engagement.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil. (5 Nov 2024)

Alan Farrell: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has considered the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 31 - Transport.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

Question put.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the next weekly division time on Wednesday, 6 November 2024.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 5.27 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 5 Samhain 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 5.27 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 November 2024.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: Are there no other speakers? It is that time of the evening and that time of the cycle. Only a few of us brave souls are left.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: It is the graveyard shift.

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: I thank Deputy Browne. I thank Deputy Tóibín for introducing the Bill and provoking the debate. He has attempted to address a significant issue. I have given reasons, which I will recap, as to why the Government is not in a position to support the Bill but, notwithstanding that, I commend the Deputy on his initiative in bringing it forward. I listened with interest to Deputy...

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is missing two massive points. First, it is missing the point that the market is already distorted. I have a degree in economics. Anybody who analyses the food market in this country will tell you that it is, by definition, a distorted market. It is not unusual for the Government to preside over distorted markets. Much of the economy, such as the insurance industry,...

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: I appreciate the introduction of this Bill. For too long, our farmers have had to navigate a marketplace that is not designed with their needs in mind, while at the same time having to comply with measures that are outdated and schemes designed and rolled out by the Department in a manner that can, at best, be described as inefficient. Farmers are workers too. They are involved in one...

Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: I thank Deputy Tóibín for bringing this Bill forward and for his passionate contribution to the debate. I have listened with interest to his setting out of his stall and I have taken careful note of what he has said. We can all agree that farmers should receive a fair and equitable price for their produce. The programme for Government recognises the economic and social role of...