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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: We will not be voting on the issue. Whatever else we are doing, we cannot be in two places at the one time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility: Discussion (16 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: The Opposition has done well.

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to resolve the concerns of owners of land between Athlone in County Westmeath and Aughrim in County Galway relating to the routing of the new Dublin-Galway cycleway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23245/15]

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: At the outset, I note that I support the principle of a coast-to-coast greenway. However, the Minister and his officials have gone about this the wrong way. They have taken the wrong approach and the wrong attitude and, as a result, stopped any progress on this project. I want to know why the NRA looked to lands in public ownership between Dublin and the River Shannon, but adopted a...

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. How does he intend to get the cyclists from Athlone to Ballinasloe if he is not prepared to engage with either the Oireachtas Members or the landowners between Athlone and Ballinasloe? He might clarify, for the record, that some Oireachtas Members in County Galway have been invited to meetings. As he knows, at least two Oireachtas Members...

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: Not all of the Oireachtas Members were invited. I am sure that if the Chair were free to speak, he could clarify that for himself. One cannot get to County Galway without engaging with landowners in County Roscommon first, or do the officials in the Department need a lesson in geography? It is possible, by using Bord na Móna lands and existing disused rights of way and by having a...

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: Where suitable.

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: And exclude their own public representatives

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: They are not.

Other Questions: Cycling Policy (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: And their representatives. It would not have happened without them.

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: 9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to try to secure direct flights from China to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23231/15]

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: Almost 110 Chinese tourists per day visited Ireland last year. The number is estimated to grow by one fifth by 2017. Some 120 million Chinese are to travel abroad this year and are to spend a total of approximately $100 billion. Despite this, we do not have any direct flights from China to Ireland. Is it not about time the Government put strategies in place to try to attract direct...

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: More than 300,000 Chinese tourists visited New Zealand last year. New Zealand has a population pretty much the same as that of Ireland but it is actually farther from China than Ireland. However, there are direct flights. In light of the strong ties between Shannon Airport and senior political figures in China, should we not now try to build upon that and bring high-spending Chinese...

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: The problem with the visa is that it is a single-entry visa. Therefore, a Chinese visitor who visits Ireland after having visited the United Kingdom cannot return to the United Kingdom before returning home. This anomaly needs to be addressed because it is causing a barrier. Owing to the very close relationship the Minister now has with IAG, surely he could telephone Willie Walsh and...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: I support Deputy Fleming's comments on amendments Nos. 2 and 5 in the name of his party colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath. The objective of amendments Nos. 2, 4 and 5 is to broaden the application of this Bill. The economy is improving at the moment and dramatically so in Dublin, but one of the downsides of that is the fact that capital assets, including commercial property and family...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: -----some of them in an unsafe situation. Will the Minister engage with the receivers to ensure those bonds are upheld in order that the resources are given to the local authorities to complete those estates?

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: The Minister might come back to me at some stage on the IBRC issue. On amendment No. 4, the fundamental difference between a vulture fund and a bank or other credit institution operating in Ireland is that the latter is here for the long term, bearing in mind the need to maintain brand reputation. In the case of a vulture fund, as soon as house prices increase, as is the case, a bubble...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: I was trying to flush out the Minister's view on them.

Other Questions: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options (18 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: 8. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of bogs where full relocation has been completed in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23541/15]

Other Questions: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options (18 Jun 2015)

Denis Naughten: Eighteen years after the signing into law of the EU habitats directive and the restriction of turf cutting on special areas of conversation, SAC-designated bogs, a succession of Governments have failed to deliver on the relocation of turf cutters. Some 781 turf cutters have sought relocation. At the current rate of progress, it will take 276 years to complete the process. There has been an...