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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I have an open mind on it. Reading between the lines, it seems to me that the Chair and the secretariat have decided that we cannot vote on something that has not yet been finally drafted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: We would have to put it back anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: That is an important clarification. The Bill is still before the committee. However, if the committee cannot decide on the adoption of the report, will we be in a holding pattern waiting to come in to land? Would we have to await an election to change the dynamics of the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: We are idling with the engine running.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: It seems to me that the dynamic of the committee will not change over the coming months. The committee and the secretariat can busy themselves dotting the i's and crossing the t's, but in January, February or March, the numbers will be the same and we would reach the same decision. I do not have a predetermined position on the matter. Would it be better to address the question today and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Correct. If it is adopted, we will drive on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: I would like to get some clarity. There is almost a belief that the Bill is now residing in some kind of purgatory.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: Or in limbo. I understand that is not the case. A proposal was made and, unfortunately, it was defeated. It was not that we did not agree. Following a tight vote, it was defeated under the procedures of the committee. Perhaps we can get some clarity from the secretariat in due course. My understanding is that the report falls, unfortunately. In effect, it has been defeated. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (18 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: We need to get some clarity from the secretariat on another occasion.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Increases (19 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT on hairdressing services is increasing on 1 January 2019; if so, the amount by which; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53485/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (19 Dec 2018)

Timmy Dooley: 429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 173 of 20 September 2018 and 248 of 14 November 2018, when the farmer will receive the outstanding payment in view of the fact that the error was made well over a year ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53616/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Nor Mattie either.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: Is that in a no-deal scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: I will be brief because my predecessor covered a lot. The challenge facing us as an Oireachtas is to try to engage with the public to make the reality of climate change an acceptable phenomenon for it, to try to put in place a series of measures to change the behaviour of the public that the public will find acceptable and to do so in a way that the public does not feel it is being foisted...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over two years will have a knee assessed by an orthopaedic consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2120/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicle Grants (17 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a person (details supplied) who bought a 100% electric vehicle and applied for a grant was refused funding despite the vehicle complying with the conditions of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2068/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (17 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses, apartments and accommodation units owned or leased by Clare County Council as vacant social housing stock; the length of time each unit has been vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2060/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jan 2019)

Timmy Dooley: The Deputy is due a bit of latitude today so.