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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I thank Mr. Hyland and his colleagues for coming in. They are very welcome. I will pick up on the drivers issue. It was mentioned there is a deficit of 3,000 to 4,000 drivers in the sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: In terms of exits form the sector, how many drivers retire annually?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: My next question is about the training courses described by Mr. Jackman. He said they were fully booked. Will Mr. Jackman tell me about the demand for those courses? When he says they were fully booked did they have to turn people away because there were no spaces on the courses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: What is the total cohort size of each of the training courses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: That is 3,000 or 4,000 people per year. What I hear from Mr. Jackman is that while we are getting people who are already active in the labour market to come on to these courses, we are not getting inactive people. There is a piece of work to be done there to persuade inactive people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Mr. Jackman also mentioned the labour shortage of skilled mechanics. I have heard of this issue in other sectors - the waste sector and buses in public transport. We know what happened in Dublin last week. Has Mr. Jackman spoken to other sectors about the issues they face with the shortage of HGV mechanics, in particular, and about having a concerted push to upskill them? We know there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: It was mentioned that South Africa was the country from which most non-EU workers are coming from. Are there any other countries from which there is a high degree of supply of workers or is it just South Africa in the main?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I have two very short questions as I am conscious of the time. What is the single biggest reform Mr. Hyland would like to see at the RSA? Does Mr. Hyland have any views on Stena Line's announcement yesterday that it is pulling out of the schedule in Rosslare Europort?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Hopefully, I will not take the full allocation of time. I asked a question earlier and we did not get to the answer. I asked what was the single most high priority reform for the RSA that the IRHA would like to see.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Groundhog Day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: That is a very fair point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: It is probably the only aspect of the education and training system in Ireland where there is not external balance like QQI, ETBs, etc. Some of my constituents have raised issues about planning permission for logistics yards, which is where they leave trucks. Have members of the association raised the same issue with the association? Are people experiencing difficulties with getting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: For sure it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Issues Facing the Road Haulage Industry: Irish Road Haulage Association (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I thank the witnesses for their time.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to differentiated rates of Capital Gains Tax for different scenarios. [36600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding provided to the Irish Martial Arts Commission and Kickboxing Ireland by the State in each of the years 2021 to 2024, in tabular form. [36596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment If he will provide an overview of the support provided to international competitors on behalf of the Irish Martial Arts Commission and Kickboxing Ireland by the State in each of the years 2021 to 2024. [36597/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Organisations (2 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment If he will provide an overview of the engagement between his Department and the Irish Martial Arts Commission and Kickboxing Ireland in each of the years 2021 to 2024. [36598/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if new EE-zoned land will be identified in tandem with industrial land rezonings for housing to enable relocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35806/25]