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Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Flood Relief Schemes (1 May 2024)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response regarding this real, significant work scheme. The 38 projects in County Cork are significant ones. The 39th project will be the most significant one when we get the go-ahead in the next few weeks for this project. I will liaise directly with Cork County Council to make sure it has received this further information from the...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Flood Relief Schemes (1 May 2024)

Tim Lombard: It is great to have the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, here to discuss the issue of the flooding in Ring. Last Friday evening, we had the wonderful opportunity to welcome him to Ring, which really was a great honour for me. He met up with local councillor, John O'Sullivan, and members of the tidy towns committee in the area, particularly Frances Coakley. He also met local election...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Network (24 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: The Minister is more than welcome to the House. It is great to have the opportunity to discuss this issue with him in the Chamber. I ask that he ensures necessary funding is put in place for Cork County Council under the national regional road improvement scheme. I am very much aware that a delegation from Cork County Council, including Councillors Michael Hegarty and John Paul O'Shea, is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Network (24 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister. Cork has one eighth of the roads in Ireland, so one would expect it to get one eighth of the funding. This would be the normal breakdown of funding required. The scale of the county is an issue in that it is massive. Its roads need to be repaired, as the Minister knows, and very many minor roads need funding. Consequently, we need a special funding block put in...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I commend the motion to the House. It is very important. I am a parent of four children. My twins are seven and the other children are 13 and 14. This is the biggest issue in our household by a country mile. How do we police this space? How do we involve everyone in it? How can we have an appropriate environment so people have an active lifestyle and engage with digital technology if...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Cathaoirleach for those very kind words. We are 45 or 46 days away from the local elections. This debate about what we are going to do about local government and where it is going to be a part of our society needs to happen in a very appropriate place like this. Limerick is going to be the leading light when it comes to local government in the next few days. Limerick will...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sport and Recreational Development (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I was not aware we had the wonderful Minister of State in front of us. I want to acknowledge the kind words the Cathaoirleach said. The Minister of State is a great ambassador for politics. I think he first ran for election in November 1982 and he is now a junior Minister. I am delighted to have him here. I am bringing this issue of where we are going regarding athletics in County Cork...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sport and Recreational Development (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: We need a viable solution for the athletics crisis in County Cork at the moment. That solution can be provided by Bandon Athletic Club, which has done all the preparation work and all the ground work, including kerbing. The provision of an injection of cash to put the actual track in place would mean we would have a track this summer. Unfortunately, if we do not have that, more than 8,000...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Like my colleague Senator Joe O'Reilly, I compliment the wonderful work and distinguished career of Dick Dowling, who, as a councillor, Senator and TD, was a wonderful public representative from the mid-1970s into the 1980s and Garret Fitzgerald's era in politics. His death represents a significant loss to the Fine Gael family and to people in his home county of Kilkenny. I want to...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister for attending this welcome debate on agriculture. I can blame him for many things but I cannot blame him for the weather. The past seven months have been frightening. It has been appalling. Since last September, it has not stopped raining. In my part of the world, an inch and a half of rain fell last Monday week. To say it was depressing is an understatement. Where...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I also acknowledge the new Senator and wish him the best of luck. I hope he enjoys his experience in this wonderful House. We should have a debate with the Minister for Education about Irish oral examinations in the past few weeks. We have had a bizarre situation in which the profile for having oral examinations count as part of the leaving certificate has been changed. Traditionally,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Perhaps Mr. Kelly will inform us on the county development plan process and how things operate. Will he give us a timeline regarding when the next review of the county development plan will happen? Where are we with the county development plan process? I am aware it is an ongoing process. What are the timelines for a proposed review of this plan to take place? Perhaps the chief planner...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Is it a seven year plan?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: So the timelines for any change or review of the current development plan would happen in that kind of timeline. We are looking at probably four years away to some degree. Would that be fair?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Will that involve public consultation, submissions, going through the members twice, back up with the manager's report and everything else that happens in between?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: The council's problem is that a change in national policy would impact on that plan. The only option the council would have to change the plan then would be some kind of contravention of the county development plan. Would that be appropriate? Would that be how the council could do it if it needed to change the county development plan in the case of a national policy change? Would it be...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Yes, sorry.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Is there a history within Mayo County Council, or Galway County Council previously, of going through contraventions or variations of this nature in the witnesses' experience? Have they done this before? Is it a practice? Is it something they do on a yearly or maybe a two- or three-year basis?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Just so I can get my head straight on this, am I correct to say that the only way a variation would happen is if it is basically brought forward by the management? Is it a reserved function of the management when it comes to the actual county development plan process?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: And then passed by the council.