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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will discuss it at our meeting.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Amendment No. 8 has been ruled out of order. It is to be discussed at our meeting next week.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome Deputy McGrath.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to be helpful to everybody. Deputy McGrath has amendments which were not taken. I would ask him to put them forward on Report Stage. That will allow him to debate them.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: It will be as soon as possible. There could be short notice. The Minister is trying to bring forward an amendment which is with legal advisers at the moment. As soon as there is clarity on that we will proceed immediately to Report Stage.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy Healy-Rae can put forward amendments.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: In the process of Committee Stage, when we called the amendments, Deputy Healy-Rae was not here. That is just a fact.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: All I can say is that everybody else is here. The Deputy will have an opportunity to raise them on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister has a proposal which he hoped to have on Committee Stage for today. It was delayed legally and the official legal analysis has not been given to him. He has committed to give it to the members as soon as he has it, in advance of Report Stage. We will have a copy of it before Report Stage. This will allow Deputies to put forward amendments.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister also said that if there continues to be any legal issue with it, he will introduce it in the Seanad. It will then come back to the Dáil for full discussion and debate. There is no question of anybody's input being excluded. I have to move on.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course, the Deputy will.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. I am saying the Minister can only proceed when he is ready to proceed. Is that it?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: As the Bill has now completed Committee Stage, it is recommended that members submit Report Stage amendments to the Bills Office without delay as the Report Stage may be tabled at short notice. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending this meeting.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil (21 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport has completed its consideration of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017 and has made no amendments thereto.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the departmental officials and thank the joint committee for taking on board my recommendation that Drogheda be added to the national development plan. It would not have happened without the support of people like Senator Victor Boyhan. I also compliment the officials for listening to me. As they know, I do not always agree with them and vice versa, but in this case they have got...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I had to get that in and was just checking that members are wewake. The point is that the needs of places such as Drogheda as a significant regional growth centre will have to be addressed in the context of local government reform. The conundrum which has not yet been resolved and is hugely pressing locally is that it extends across two boundaries, the boundaries of County Louth and County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: They first have to get through the game between Louth and Meath. The plan recognises the individuality and identity of each county. To develop a centre for shopping, recreation, amenities and education services we have to find a formula that will works because there is a total disconnect between east Meath and Navan and east Meath and Drogheda. We are much closer together than the boundary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have an answer for Deputy Cowen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: He may not like it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Project Ireland 2040: Discussion (22 Mar 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: In reply to my good friend and colleague, Deputy Barry Cowen, the national spatial strategy should have been revised once its cycle came to an end, as he rightly noted. It was a disastrous strategy because very few of the designated areas actually became growth areas. Drogheda which had been omitted from it heretofore actually grew to become the biggest town in Ireland. That is how wrong...