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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The Deputy should know-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The Deputy got a real insight that day down in Barryroe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: EBI is a breeding format for cows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The Deputy was told that in Barryroe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The Chairman is being tough on me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: It is important that the witnesses are here this afternoon. I had the pleasure of spending a Friday afternoon at the MaREI Centre a few months ago. It was engaging and helpful. The witnesses bring a bit of clarity to major issues. I will just ask two short questions because the Chairman has put me under such time constraint. Where are we going with the carbon-storage model? I will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: Senator Colm Burke was treated in an appalling manner at the meeting of the joint committee yesterday. I missed the meeting but the Leader needs to address the issue because we have parity in those committees.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: An issue I have been chasing for many months is how we deal with Irish Water. In my part of the world, a water main has broken 18 times in the past 14 months. There was a gate valve so that the village, Ballinhassig, could be fed from both sides. Irish Water has announced that it will look at the issue but it must do a cost-benefit analysis of putting in another gate valve. It involves...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the opportunity to comment on section 14, which involves the transfer of the assets and liabilities of one local authority to another. Perhaps the Minister of State might clarify the situation in respect of the value and the process that will be used to value these properties. Some major properties have loans while others do not. How does the Minister of State propose that an...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I think the issue has more to do with value. Take the example of a major project in Douglas in which the county council invested significant sums of money over the past decade not knowing that this process was going to happen. While the county council could have invested this money in Clonakilty or some other part of the local authority area,...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: Senator Boyhan said that all political forces in Cork were fully in favour of this proposal but, to be clear, I was never in favour of what is being proposed today. My view has always been that this is just a stepping stone to where we need to be. It will take two steps rather than one and, in a decade, we might go where we should have gone, which is to one local authority. I will support...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I was going to raise the mapping of boundaries in section 17 or 28. Who, in God's name, was involved in mapping the boundaries? The usual protocol for mapping was to consider the electoral divisions, EDs, but if they were not good enough one would use townlands. None of those protocols was used. A townland in Moneygourney, County Cork has been divided between two local authorities - a...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: We need to be proactive in this space as we have made a mistake. The Minister of State must provide a helpline, extend a deadline or whatever so that people have enough time to find out where they stand. More importantly, such measures would allow local government staff to determine who lives on what road and where live. There are nine houses on one particular road in Moneygourney but...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I appreciate that the Minister of State has exceptional knowledge of what happened in some locations in the 1950s and 1960s, which is before I was born. I refer to the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act 1992, which means that by 15 February we need to have a register in place. That register is important because it will mean that people can cast their votes in European, local...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The issue of whether this works is very important. How we actually gauge and measure that is something we have to look at from the point of view of issues pertaining to both the city and the county. That is very important. Funding is going to be a key issue here. It will be a key issue to ensuring that we have a viable county and a prosperous city. The old system had its faults. We had...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I seek clarity on section 85 agreements between local authorities, mainly relating to shared services. 25 May is D Day. The local elections will be over and we must ask how it will work in areas such as planning permission applications in the new districts. This is an important matter for everyday living so that people receive the services they seek, whether it is planning, housing or...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I was going to raise this issue in section 31 about planning permission levies and contribution levies. I am open to correction by Members in the House with greater knowledge than me, but these sections refer to development contributions. There are also special development contributions pertaining to sites. Special development contributions pertaining to sites are for special...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: Cork went through an equalisation initiative five years ago. We equalised the town council rate base on the back of the local authority base, which was a significant body of work in which I was very much involved at the time. It meant we could move everyone to the same rate base. We have been stagnant, in many ways, regarding rate collections and those kinds of issues.The business...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: There have been some very valuable contributions regarding LUTS, which worked very well in two iterations. CASP came afterwards and it worked exceptionally well. People have forgotten it now because they want to forget it in many ways. It opened a rail line from Cork to Midleton, the first rail line opened in over 100 years in Ireland. It was a significant development in a very unusual...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The issue of governance and how we can empower local authority members in this regard is important. I was a member of local authority when these audit reports came before it. We need to be looking at how we can empower councillors to have the ability to work through a process. It is unfair on local authority members, however, to expect them to scrutinise their chief executives. The Houses...