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- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I come from a rural part of County Cork, which is quite large. It is very similar to Wicklow in its geographical size. How does Mr. Byrne manage the existing walk schemes, the smaller walks schemes and the larger ones for which the partnership has achieved so much funding?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: My final question is to ask how the partnership interacts with other groups, both outside and inside the country, to benchmark its experiences and how it would like to profile going forward.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: Would you benchmark internationally, in terms of your own experience?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: Finally, could Ms Coad briefly provide some details on the eco-toilet project?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: What is the cost?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I thank the witnesses for answering those questions.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I have two more questions. Will Mr. Byrne and Ms Coad give me their understanding and experience of how creating disability access is so important now? We want to make sure all our walks, trails and outdoor recreation are open for everybody.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: In terms of counters and maintenance, how many walks are there counters on? There is always a challenge with funding maintenance. How does the County Wicklow Partnership cope with this? Does it have access to community employment schemes and other such schemes as part of this?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: And the maintenance?
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I appreciate that and I thank Mr. Byrne. I thank the witnesses very much for attending today. I thank Ms Coad and Mr Byrne for their time and effort on the development and operation of rural recreation programmes and how recreation in the outdoors can be promoted and enhanced. I also recognise the chair of the County Wicklow Partnership, Liz Wall, who is here today in the Gallery. I thank...
- Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I thank the Deputy.
- Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I thank the Deputy.
- Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I thank the Deputy.
- Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: We now move to contributions from Members. Sinn Féin has 15 minutes, which is being divided between a number of speakers. First up is Deputy Joanna Byrne.
- Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: The Deputies from the Labour Party are dividing their time.
- Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: The next group is the Social Democrats, who are sharing time. The first up is Deputy Gibney.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (1 Oct 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a Acres scheme payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry for the years 2023 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52214/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: I thank all the speakers and contributors today. There has been huge reputational damage to the River Blackwater since this incident occurred, from an economic point of view, as was mentioned the anglers' representatives, but also from a tourism perspective. That needs to be acknowledged. I do not think it was acknowledged by anyone here today, but it must be acknowledged by everyone that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: There is a line on the second page of the statement saying "Investigations, at this stage, have not yielded evidence of pollution."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)
John Paul O'Shea: It is regrettable that the IFI came out with a public statement on that occasion and reiterated halfway through the first line that IFI is engaging with Uisce Éireann, the EPA and Cork County Council. It asked anglers to refrain from fishing on the affected stretch of the river and it also asked that people would wash, clean and dry their equipment at that stage. On reflection, and...