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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is to consider programme D of the 2024 Further Revised Estimate for Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications. I remind members that the committee has no role in approving the Estimate. It is an ongoing opportunity for the committee to examine departmental expenditure, to make the process more transparent and to engage in a meaningful way on relevant...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Is Deputy Alan Farrell still online? Would he like to come in next?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: We can hear Deputy Farrell loud and clear. He may proceed.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will come in next. I thank the Minister for his presentation. I have a few questions, but not too many, to put to him. It is obvious with respect to the national broadband plan that enormous progress is being made. I congratulate the Minister and the Department, as well as all of the work crews. Every day I move around my constituency and see National Broadband Ireland vans or...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. When he and his Department have high-level engagement on this matter, it is important. There was colossal public debate on this matter approximately 15 years ago when applications for masts and antennae were going in every week. That was a national debate. These days, the industry seems to go back again and again for masts and antennae in urban settings. Stadiums,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will next ask about eircodes. Would the Minister consider making it mandatory that an eircode is displayed on public buildings? On our farm at home, we decided a few months ago to hang a sign on the door of the shed because the moment you need to know your eircode is when you will forget it in a panic. The local school I taught in before becoming a member of the Dáil has its eircode...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I want to hone in on the public warning system, as others have. I do not have the correct name for the cell broadcast public warning system. I would love to hear more on that. It is a fantastic idea. We are a nation of hypochondriacs as well. Will it be the case that when there is a red weather alert, this will go out onto someone's mobile phone, or will it be something of a greater...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: He was the better salesman for hoaxes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have two small questions to end. There is a strategy around offshore wind that will see much of the Irish Sea having an offshore wind infrastructure, as well as a similar infrastructure coming westward from Britain. With all this fixed infrastructure in the Irish Sea, has the Minister and his counterpart in the British Government examined the possibility of there being a cellular network...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is a smart approach. My next question refers to digital stamps. The national rate for a digital stamp is €2. The national rate for the paper sticky stamp is €1.40. Some say the price discrepancy is because the digital stamp can be tracked, and the sender is notified when it gets delivered. Surely from a sustainability point of view, we should be trying to encourage...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Does Deputy O'Rourke wish to come in again? I have one final question for the Minister, as I do not know if Deputy Farrell is here. The Minister casually mentioned a couple of years ago, and we are not trying to catch him out, a lovely example last year in Switzerland. Swiss postal vans have what is called a crew cab, where it goes around the villages with all the bags of mail in the back....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance today and for their very positive engagement with our committee.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Further Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications - programme D.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Heritage Projects (27 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to consider establishing an investigative taskforce to establish if the Holy See are in the possession of the crown of Brian Boru, former High King of Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27299/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (27 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide air quality monitoring devices to be located on State-owned lands and buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27297/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (27 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if farmers are allowed to burn bushes this year, as per the Waste Management (Prohibition of Waste Disposal by Burning) Regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27296/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider an additional accommodation application made by a school (details supplied). [27632/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (27 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently initiate an investigation into the practice of veterinary surgeons at a plant (details supplied) in County Kildare, in particular the fact that horses were allowed to proceed through the slaughtering process with fake documents, secondary microchips and painted feet; and if he will make a statement on the...