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- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: When he says this will take effect in 2016, does this mean there will be relief in 2015 for clubs? There will obviously now have to be a revaluation this year. Someone is going to have to come out and remeasure these premises because, at the moment, the whole of the premises is measured rather than the bar only. How long is that going to take and is the Minister of State giving any...
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: That is very important. Can I be assured it will only take place in the clubs that have bars and we will not go snooping and looking to find that they might be doing this or that? That will benefit those clubs that have bars.
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The bar area.
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is extremely disappointing that this is not in place yet and that the Minister of State is saying the bills they have received for 2015 are due and payable. Over a year ago we had Fine Gael backbenchers announcing that this had basically come into effect, but the Minister of State is saying it will not come into effect until next year. We put forward a Bill in late 2013 or early 2014....
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I would make one further point. In the previous legislation we had a full exemption for sporting activities. The Minister of State has now watered that down in what I consider is probably a balanced way, but I am depending on the Valuation Office not to go looking where it has no business. These are not commercial entities; they are clubs. If the Valuation Office is going to start looking...
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I said it was his predecessor.
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am not denying that. Neither do I accept I held up the legislation, however.
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am certainly not proposing any amendments to support wind farm developments.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I join colleagues in paying tribute to Donncha Ó Dúlaing. One of my good friends, Kathleen Goff, used to send requests to his programme regularly on my behalf and mention my name until the producers wised up to the fact that I was a local politician. Before that, I was delighted to hear my name mentioned on the programme on a regular basis. Mr. Ó Dúlaing is a fantastic...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: One can support it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: I am down in the courts all the time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: The people of Meath are not happy, as EirGrid has heard. I went to Gibbstown yesterday. There is deep anger there about putting pylons on historic ground such as the site of the Tailteann Games. What is the distance pylons have to be from the habitat of the whooper swan, which is of international importance, and of the golden plover, which is very important in the Blackwater Valley? How...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It was not part of the McGuinness commission so by definition it was not the same level of analysis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: EirGrid put 400 m in its EIS for the last planning application.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: Will Mr. Fitzgerald express that in metres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: And yet 50 m is the acceptable distance from a house.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: What is the distance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: North-South Interconnector: EirGrid (21 Apr 2015)
Thomas Byrne: It is 50 m from a human, 150 m from a turbine and 400 m from a whooper swan.