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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: Could Mr. O'Connor just give us the figure because we have about ten seconds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: Sorry, we are just out of time. Senator Boyhan is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: Yes, we are over seven minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: Senator Boyhan raised an interesting concept, namely, the vacant sales option. I ask for a written response on that, if that would be acceptable to the Senator. It would greatly assist us in terms of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. O'Toole for that important point. If he believes that the opening statement covers everything, that is fine. If he feels that he wishes to add more to it based on today's questions and discussion, though, we would accept that. We are trying to feed into the Bill and take all of the expert advice. Adding more advice and information will assist us in that. We would welcome it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I ask Mr. O'Connor for a one-minute response, please. I need to finish the meeting now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I need to bring the meeting to a close. I am sorry, but we are out of time. I thank the witnesses for their participation. It has been helpful to us and will assist us in our scrutiny of the legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and their opening submissions. I acknowledge Mr. Meade's contribution in which he thanked the staff of the railways for keeping the service going and providing vital travel services to people who needed to get to work through a pandemic. I refer to regional rail. Representatives of the National Transport Authority, NTA, were before the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Meade. I suggest that this committee could make a recommendation that the NTA would develop a heavy rail division and become more involved in regional rail services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: The second question is for Mr. Dunne and Mr. Carr. It relates to Rosslare Port, which has seen a massive increase in business, and we know the reason for that. How many extra trucks is that putting on the N11 every day? How many extra trucks are rolling off at Rosslare Port every day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: That is 70,000 trucks per-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: That is a large amount of road-based haulage traffic. We know the contribution road traffic is making to emissions. With respect to a €200 million potential investment in Rosslare Europort, and this is a question for Mr. Dunne also, is there an opportunity for Rosslare Europort to operate rail freight with lift-on, lift-off operations? Is that type of investment possible? There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (16 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I have one final question for Mr. Meade on electrification. The DART+ programme is an ambitious electrification proposal. We are quite far behind most other European countries with regard to our ambitions to electrify. Does Mr. Meade see opportunities for electrification in the regions, for example, in Limerick or Cork, or further expansion of the DART+ programme for electrification Given...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (17 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to a public liability scheme that has been adopted in the UK that offers insurance to those involved in horse walking trails on public and private land that indemnifies land owners against potential liabilities; and if he will consider engaging with Sport Ireland, Horse Sport Ireland and other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing concerns of staff in a school (details supplied); and the steps she will take to alleviate these concerns at the school. [8522/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: 435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a capacity issue at a school (details supplied); and the steps she will take to alleviate the issue. [8524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new school building for a school (details supplied). [8526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (17 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take with regard to one-year masters courses that have practical laboratory work at their core that have not held in-person classes; if these classes will be facilitated outside the formal academic year when it is safe to do so; and if the inability to complete essential aspects of these courses will be acknowledged. [8412/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan: Department of Transport (23 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and submissions in advance. National and international objectives are to reduce CO2 emissions by 51% and onwards then towards carbon neutrality. That requires us to look at things we have done in the past in a completely different way. That includes transport and ways we might have looked at things in 2015 and decisions that were made then. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan: Department of Transport (23 Feb 2021)

Steven Matthews: Does the Department apply a cost per tonne of carbon to each project or is this too simplistic a way to look at it?