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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ask his Department to liaise with Irish Rail and Local Link in order that they can co-ordinate with each other to connect train times and bus times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28556/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wind Energy Generation (4 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual estimated cost of port infrastructure for offshore wind energy for the years 2025 to 2029. [28734/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I nominate Deputy Matthews.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his presentation. I also thank his officials. I wish the Minister all the best. In light of his announcement that he will not be rejoining us after the general election, I take this opportunity to say that it has always been a pleasure and privilege to work with him. I want to raise a couple of matters. As has been mentioned in the context of rural issues, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes. I thank the Minister. My last point is about the western rail corridor, which I have raised with him umpteen times. Perhaps he will come back in respect of this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: The other issue, which the Minister mentioned in his opening remarks, relates to the more urban sense of how every market town in the country is choked up with traffic and space is at a premium. The Dublin traffic plan is the big one we are seeing before us now in respect of addressing this issue. Those of us who travel in and out through Dublin recognise that at some critical times there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: The traffic is not there then. I left here at about 8 p.m.

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I welcome Lucia and the O'Farrell family. This is not the first time they have been here. They have been here on many, many occasions. While I was a spokesperson on justice, I dealt with them on many occasions. I did so as well with other families and other situations that have a similar thread running through them. This thread is that in this State when something inappropriate happens,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I will be brief. I thank the witnesses for their remarks. Returning to the issue of remunicipalisation or the councils going back to collecting the waste again, I do not think any of us see each local authority buying trucks, having a yard and bringing waste to it. That is probably unfeasible. However, there is a much greater role for local authorities in all that. We should be looking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: On the export issue, briefly, what assurance do we have that hazardous waste, for example, is actually being treated properly at its destination? This is an issue we have seen historically in Third World and developing countries. The West's waste was dumped on them and nothing happened to it. Is there any guarantee that it is being dealt with using the appropriate measures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I thank Mr. Rowe for his opening statement. A couple of questions arise. Let us go back to the very large commercial developments that happened over the years. I accept many of them have been there for the best part of a generation in some cases. Mr. Rowe said 30 years and more. My limited knowledge of the civil law around this is that it is about whether a development is there without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I accept that. The anomaly here people cannot get their heads around is we have had all this happening for so long with, as Mr. Rowe says, little or nothing save the setting-up of a unit to deal with it only in the last 12 months, yet we have such a vigorous pursuit of people who have a boat on the river or who have a boat on the canal. We all know about the housing crisis in the country....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: All right. Mr. Rowe mentioned the user base earlier, I think in response to Deputy Creed. Waterways Ireland basically includes everybody, from people who walk along the river or canal to those who use it regularly to people who make their living from it. They are all part of the user base. Surely there has to be a distinction when it comes to use of the river. The "public good" delivered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: It is ensuring there is public access and that public access is something that is there and is free and available to everyone. If I were to put a boat in Garadice Lough in County Leitrim, which the canal runs through, Mr. Rowe is telling me there is going to be a charge for it, yet if I go up the road and put a boat in Keeldra Lough, which is not part of the canal, there will be no charge....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waterways Ireland: Discussion. (9 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: Mr. Rowe talks of the €200, but he says his organisation is reviewing that in the context of all the-----