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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. On behalf of the committee, I acknowledge the success of the Irish Presidency and congratulate the Minister and his officials on the progress and achievements that have been made. I will now take questions and remarks from the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: There might be two other issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: I thank the Minister for that. In my constituency there is a very a business that has a way of converting waste tyres into oil. It is seeking some assistance from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. I am glad the Minister has expressed a willingness at least to engage with it from that point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: We have a very environmentally friendly way of disposing of all those tyres in my constituency, Tipperary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: As we are speaking about Tipperary, a county dear to the Minister's heart-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: The Minister mentioned my constituency, which is Tipperary. Earlier he spoke about alien invasive species. We have an example on Lough Derg where the zebra mussel came in. While the various European directives and proposals are laudable in one sense, action on the ground to deal with them seems to be very scarce. There does not seem to be any concrete proposal to address it and it has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: It is of national importance to the industry. I welcome the Minister's comments that everything possible will be done to curtail it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Forthcoming Environment Council: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (4 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: I thank the Minister, Deputy Hogan, and his departmental official for helping us in our deliberations today.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (10 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: 284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for domiciliary care allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53031/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (10 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53032/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: 410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment and an disadvantaged area payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52585/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (10 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: 444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an area aid disadvantage payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the delay in payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53037/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: 296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53784/13]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: As we have a quorum of three Deputies we will commence the meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed. Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy Michael McCarthy. I remind members to turn off their mobile phones. I also remind them that this meeting will be conducted in public session. It has been convened for the purpose of the consideration of the following order from Dáil...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: Something similar happened in Carlingford Lough.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: The bridge at Narrow Water.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: More importantly, will it have any impact on the Shannon, for example, and the extraction of water from it?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: And Galway.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: As there are no further questions, that concludes our consideration of this order. Is this agreed? Agreed. I propose that the committee instruct the clerk to the Committee to send the following message to the Clerk of Dáil Éireann. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: Motion (17 Dec 2013)

Noel Coonan: Yes. I thank the Minister, Deputy Hogan, and Mr. O'Connell for assisting us in our consideration of this order today.