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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Is Deputy Ó Broin pressing amendment No. 8?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I will let the Minister of State respond, then I will bring Deputy Ó Broin in.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Deputy Ó Broin indicated that he is willing to withdraw amendment No. 10 provided the Minister comes back to it on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Amendment Nos. 14, 16, 17, 19, 75 and 247 are related and will be taken together.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I take that as a message.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Is amendment No. 14 being pressed?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 20 has already been discussed with amendment No. 6. Is amendment No. 20 agreed?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 23 and 25, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together. Amendments Nos. 24 and 25 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 23.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I apologise; I had to step out although I was here for the start of the discussion on the tolls and various road projects. I have a couple of questions on the way TII assesses road projects, especially with regard to carbon emissions or maybe reduced demand. The climate action plan was published in 2023. Has TII reviewed its projects that are at all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Walsh has, but his reply has opened up a few other questions as well. All planning decisions are made in the interests of proper planning and sustainable development. I believe the common good is inferred in that as well. Mr. Walsh will accept that, once a planning authority makes a decision, it has properly assessed whether the project complies with the climate Act.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: That would require someone challenging it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Walsh stated it would depend on what was contained in the carbon budget and which cycle of carbon budgets we were in, but I would guess that our carbon emission budgets will never increase and they will always be on a trajectory that reduces emissions. There are projects in various stages. Can TII assess each of those and say whether any of them is likely to lead to an increase in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: As Mr. Walsh stated, it depends on when the planning application took place. It might have been prior to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Some of them probably have exempt planning permission. Will planning applications made prior to the Act need to be reassessed or will TII accept them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Walsh referred to judgments under the entire programme. Would that be where-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Obviously, An Bord Pleanála’s decision on the Galway road was not the right one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Legally, it was shown to be non-compliant with the climate Act.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Exactly. So, we would not rely on that assessment. TII’s lists of projects are at various stages and at different phases of the public spending code. TII has presented information on what has been spent on projects, who the contractors are and what the projects are trying to achieve. Is it possible to conduct a high-level readthrough of those and say whether they are likely to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Steven Matthews: Can TII provide information on all of the projects in question in terms of their carbon emissions and the assessments that have been done on them? Is that information contained in the 113-page document?