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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Five amendments in this group are in my name and I am the joint proposer of others. My amendments are related to my view and that of my party and the residents. They are based on my party's legal advice that Fingal County Council should not be designated the competent body because it is not independent enough. An alternative body with the required independence is needed. The Minister and...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Yes. Deputy Daly may wish to go first.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to comment on the response of the Minister on the question of independence. He was going through the downside for the Commission for Aviation Regulation, but his comments were in the context of the current situation and where CAR is today. Deputy Daly outlined what has been proposed and why it is important. She set out why the changes that have been proposed are so important in the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I refer to the recruitment and the indication that sanction for it has been given. It is shocking that the Minister would go through with recruitment without the approval of the Members of the Oireachtas. It shows a disregard for what might happen in this committee or the views of the members of the committee, and it is unacceptable to me. It is equally shocking when the Minister gives out...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I wish to ask the Minister whether other factors are at play here given where we are on the timeline. In our attempts to convince the Minister that the CAR is the appropriate body, are other factors at play in his reluctance to go with that? Are there practical issues? If he were to go along with designating the CAR today, what are the practical implications of his agreeing with us that...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: If the Minister were to change tack now and go for another body such as CAR, what would be the time implications?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: All of the amendments in Section 3 have been discussed.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: We touched on the WHO report when we were discussing definitions and a balanced approach. I expressed the view that it would be desirable for that report to be reflected in this legislation. I am swayed by the argument of Deputy Darragh O'Brien that such an addition should be acceptable. All members can take legal advice between now and Report Stage in order to make a call on it at that Stage.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: If this is important enough to put into the legislation, it would require the word “shall” rather than “may”. One needs to be prepared and have procedures in place.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Nobody is talking about the Minister intervening in a dispute. It is about putting procedures in place for dispute resolution.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I support amendment No. 47. For the life of me, I cannot understand why it would be put in the way that it is now, without reference to any organisation. Why would the airport authority go off and raise issues about noise impacting on people outside of the airport?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I am trying to understand the kinds of reasons for which the competent authority might suggest a deferral. Could it be on the basis of cost? If so, would that be acceptable? Some mitigation measures in regard to inland water and sea pollution have been left on hold for many years because the money has not been available from the local authority to implement them, yet there was ongoing...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Does the Minister envisage the DAA saying it cannot afford to implement a measure this year but could in two or three years? Would this be an acceptable reason for a deferral?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: If we are deciding on this legislation, the onus is on us to establish parameters regarding what reasons for deferral are acceptable to us as legislators.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Many of these amendments have come from the Minister, something to which we referred earlier. It is open to us to amend these on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Committee Stage (16 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Okay.

Promoting Cycling: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 3:To insert the following after "pensioners and unemployed people;": "— introduce urban planning measures that return our cities to the people, by prioritising cyclists, pedestrian and public transport users in urban centres, and ending the dominance of the private motor car;"

Promoting Cycling: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I am pressing it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Today’s business shall be Nos. 13 and 14, motions re appointment of Mr. Paul Mageean and Dr. Vicky Conway to the Policing Authority; No. 9, Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Probation Judgments and Decisions) Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 10, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (23 Jan 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 21 November 2018, if his Department has received the cost benefit analysis from Maynooth University, Maynooth, County Kildare in relation to future campus development plans under the NDP 2018 to 2027; if the HEA has invited applications for funding under the strategic infrastructure fund; and if he...