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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Bike Schemes (27 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to fund pilot programmes for dockless bike share programmes in Cork city and county similar to those are operated in other cities such as Singapore and London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13732/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the timelines on a new school build (details supplied) in County Kildare have changed; if the pre-tender documents are ready; and when construction will begin and be completed. [14394/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the timelines on a new school build (details supplied) in County Kildare have changed; if the pretender documents are ready; and when the construction will commence and conclude. [14475/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if full-time general practitioner cover has been restored to a hospital (details supplied). [14387/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: It is my Bill and I have many questions but I am conscious that I am a guest of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the members. I thank the officials and the academics for their attendance today because I believe that having this opportunity to interact with them is a crucial part of the legislative process. I view it as a free tutorial, for which I am very grateful. I also thank the Chair and the members of the committee for facilitating the discussion this morning. The key point that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that and that is clear evidence of action by the Government in this regard. While this not a remark directed at the officials per sebut is more a political statement, I must state that this legislation has been in gestation since 2016. I had hoped we would be further along the line at this stage because I have always expressed my willingness to withdraw my Bill were more robust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: In 2018?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate those comments. I recognise Mr. Harrington is speaking for the Minister here. However, we will have an opportunity to talk to the Minister directly about this as well and kick the tyres on his commitments. I will return briefly to the science again, just for a moment. The scientific rigour that has been applied here shows us that the research in an Irish context is nascent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Forgive me, does that mean more time is needed to design the legislation? If the legislation is to be designed in a robust way, does it need a stronger scientific and research basis? Is Dr. Nash stating that industry needs to be involved because the generators of these plastics need to be involved? Is she talking about a more holistic approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: To be helpful, I recognise that Dr. Nash is saying that it is too narrow and that microbeads, based on the evidence put forward from Nephrops norvegicus, were only something like 2% of the content and 75% was microfibres. That makes the legislative proposal before us here quite narrow. We could legislate for microbeads, but the point is we need legislation with much broader scope because,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: As I am conscious of time and the format being used, I am happy to stop and come back in at the end of the process, with the Chairman's permission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: Is Cuala the GAA-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: As the originator of the Bill, the Deputy is correct in the sense that the initial mood of the Government and the speech that was distributed to us on the night of the Second Stage debate was in opposition to the Bill. There have been some discussions with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to his credit and he decided subsequently to come on board. I think Deputy Barry is correct in that sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: I am again conscious of time. My Bill is very simple and it deals with a bespoke element of the entirety of the challenge - microbeads. I am very happy to change the title of my Bill to call it the prohibition of microbeads Bill 2016 or such. This is where the scientific research has been invaluable to us. It really explains to us just how large the scope is and the methodology that one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: We can also keep eating the Dublin Bay prawns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Prohibition of Micro-Plastics Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: It does not go into the part that is consumed. It is important to state that for the record.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if adequate resourcing has been put in place to implement the new prostitution provisions in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 criminalising the purchase of sexual services and to ensure that An Garda Síochána and the National Protective Services Bureau are properly resourced to prepare prosecutions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Mar 2018)

Seán Sherlock: 276. To ask the Minister for Health if a service will be provided to persons (details supplied). [14645/18]