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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the costs for all mandatory TB tests will be covered by his Department, as opposed to just annual tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the forgotten farmers' proposal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5727/23]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Election of Acting Chairman (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I nominate Deputy Carey.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Election of Acting Chairman (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I have to attend to other business but I can chair the meeting for a while. Perhaps we can rotate, if members are agreeable.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Election of Acting Chairman (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Deputy Carey kept that quiet.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome everyone. I will fulfil this role for a while. I may have to go up to the Chamber but I will stay as long as I can. We will surely find some practical arrangements and work our way through the afternoon. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his team to the committee to deal with the Revised Estimates. I invite the Minister to make his opening statement.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. Before we go to the roster of speakers, we will deal with a few housekeeping matters we overlooked at the start of the meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services for Vote 29 - Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, programme D, and for Vote 31 - Department of Transport. I remind members that the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Deputy O'Rourke is next.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will be contributing next and have a few questions to put to the Minister. Under programme D, which relates to civil aviation, I will pick up from where Deputy O'Rourke left off on the issue of drones at Dublin Airport. In recent days, this has been having serious consequences for the airport and for all who depend on and use it. As the Minister has said, drones passing over the airfield...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Expediency is the name of the game. As Deputy O'Rourke has said, certain leeway needs to be given to Dublin Airport Authority staff, particularly airport police, so that they can take down drones in the apron area. It is a different matter entirely if it is encroaching on the runway. If it is in the apron area or by the perimeter fence, the Minister should give leeway or, indeed, direction...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will ask the Minister about the transfer of Shannon Heritage sites to local authorities in the mid-west. This comes under the Minister's Department at the moment because Shannon Heritage is managed by the Shannon Group. A Cabinet decision was taken in, I think, summer 2021, where Cabinet collectively felt the best way forward for iconic sites like Bunratty Castle and others was to vest...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It was €15 million.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I agree with everything the Minister said. However, the time factor is the big frustration for everyone at this point. We went through a 12-month period of, "Will they, won't they?" Will the Government fund Clare County Council to make this takeover a success? We heard in December that it would, which was a positive development. Then the money came and it was well short of what was hoped...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. Arising from today's meeting, although he is not able to give dates or final figures, could he commit this afternoon or tomorrow to speaking or communicating with the other stakeholders on the interdepartmental group to move it on more? It has stagnated again since December.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. He also has an application before him for a public service obligation, PSO, route, from Shannon Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Where is that at? I think it has been in since September or October. I can come back to that. I know the officials help the Minister with briefing us. That is a question we may come back to.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It is essential to have some hub connectivity into Europe. There is Heathrow Airport in London, but since the advent of Brexit, that is no longer the perfect stepping stone to continental Europe. The Committee on Transport and Communications travelled to Amsterdam and Rotterdam airports some weeks ago to see what they had to offer in aviation. We were very impressed by it. It is time to...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The Road Safety Authority, RSA, was before the committee last week. Mr. Sam Waide was here. He has made an ask of the Minister's Department that 40 additional driving testers be approved. This is a major barrier, particularly to youngsters trying to get a full driving licence. It is more punitive in rural areas where there are not all these incredible transport links. I believe the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Okay. I met recently with some diplomats from another country. I will not betray all of the meeting with them. They were very helpful but they made it very clear if the Irish ports do not get themselves in order, theirs would be the country that will be able to build offshore turbines, tow them into position and anchor them to the seabed. They said that while Ireland has really...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and his officials.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I was going to go back to members, which will give the Deputy another chance to come in, if that is okay?