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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What has been the Department's engagement to date - I suppose that is through NTA - in the spending of €360 million at local authority level? What has been the feedback from the local authority engagement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Have all the local authorities engaged?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Quite a number of the local authorities have taken on extra staff through the active travel budget. Has the Department engagement with them directly or is that through the NTA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are they employees of the local authorities or the NTA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is their role in strategy or delivery, or both?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: It would be remiss of me not to mention school transport. It is a large element of our work, particularly in the months once the schools close and before the new school year starts. It involved expenditure of €220 million per annum pre-Covid. I will not refer to the period during Covid because the numbers were higher. That gave the context to me of the €360 million. It is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Deputy Ó Murchú.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has he come back to Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is in this particular division.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that the total complement of that climate action division? What is the Department calling it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: How big is the division relative to the others Mr. Spratt mentioned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the staff complement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: To what size does Mr. Spratt anticipate that the division will expand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Ó Murchú spoke about the remit. What are its terms of reference? What policy or document is it working towards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about the climate Bill?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: With the ultimate objective of delivering on the 2030 and 2050 targets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: By way of a just transition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Department has been very proactive. Someone has been in contact with the clerk to say that Second Stage of the Bill is expected to come before the Dáil in the first week in November. We will probably try to schedule it sometime in mid to late November. The witnesses must provide feedback to us on when it is ready in order that we can get Second Stage under way because it is very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is under way. It is an issue that we are getting a lot of queries on from the general public and providers as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: The general view is that there is anticipation that it will be in place before the end of the year. In order for that to happen, the various components must be put in place, one of those being the Committee Stage debate. I presume the Bill will go to the Dáil before it goes to the Seanad. That appears to be the way now. We will work with the Department to progress the Bill as quickly...