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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 693. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time in the Garda application process from the final interview to notification of acceptance for those who conducted their final interview in a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54836/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if cinemas will be covered by the reduced vat rate of 9% announced in Budget 2026. [55723/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Why is Fine Gael undermining law and order?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Ms Classon. Next I call Mr. Lynch, if he would give us a two-minute precis of his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank all the witnesses for their opening statements and brief summaries. We will now go to questions and answers, starting with Deputy Ward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Before we begin, I have to read a note on the topic of privilege. This is for the benefit of our witnesses and members. I do this at the beginning of every meeting. Witnesses who are giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts here in Leinster House are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence that they give to this committee. This means they have a full...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have a number of questions. As other members have already spoken, I will put them now. Deputy Mac Lochlainn set out the context to this discussion when he said it is about the infrastructure at our ports and harbours. The wider context is that the failure to invest over many years in regional infrastructure has hampered economic development and economic diversification and has put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I take Mr. Conneely's point on inflation. In the example I gave of Cé Heilbhic, the costs of the preparatory work have increased astronomically to the region of €300,000 since I started advocating for that work to be carried out. Perhaps Mr. Breathnach or Ms Egan might comment on the questions about the dysfunctionality in the funding mechanism.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Thank you. I have two more very short questions myself. One is for the RNLI in particular and again with regard to Helvick. The Minister, to be fair, came and visited Helvick with me some weeks ago, quietly, just to give himself some context for our frequent conversations on this matter. We saw the work carried out by the local authority in partnership with the RNLI. It is a really good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank both witnesses for those responses. I have a very quick question for Mr. Lynch on Dunmore East. My colleague Deputy Cullinane and I have been raising this for the past number of years. Were the works to be carried out next year, assuming that planning came through and the Government made a decision to fund it, what difference would that make to the members of ISEFPO fishing out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta. We have reached the end of our time allotted for this part of the meeting. Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe go léir as a bheith inár dteannta agus an díospóireacht. We will have another meeting between now and Christmas looking at the topic of saving lives at sea, safety at sea and water safety. I have no doubt I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Tosnóimid an dara leath den chruinniú seo. As we are in public session, I wish to give witnesses and members a note on privilege. Witnesses who are giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts in Leinster House are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to this committee. This means they have a full defence in any defamation action for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Ms McSherry. I now invite Mr. Kehoe or one of his colleagues to give a two-minute summary of their opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank both witnesses for those summaries of their opening statements, which were circulated to members prior to the meeting. I will now open the floor for questions. I remind members that they have seven minutes and that this time is for both questions and responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have a couple of questions. We will then go Deputy Mac Lochlainn when he returns as he indicated that he wished to speak. My first set of questions is for the departmental officials. They relate to the requirement that projects, particularly those to improve local authority-owned ports and harbours, be shovel-ready. It does not seem to follow logic. The shovel-ready requirement seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I understand. I thank Ms McSherry for her response. This may be more of a political point, but it is a false economy in many respects and it is a dysfunctional scheme. Earlier some of our witnesses described the frustration brought about by how difficult it is for local authorities to utilise this scheme. It limits what it can do. I have referred to Cé Heilbhic several times during...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Ms McSherry. To confirm, there was €55.3 million in total from the BAR allocated to local authority ports and harbours and €40.4 million was spent. A little under €15 million went unspent. The issue with a lot of the local authorities that were seeking to make applications was not the time constraint but the money constraint. It was having money upfront to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Was that for preparatory work such as the licensing and surveying work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What I am trying to establish is whether Ms McSherry is telling me that there was a facility where credit of some kind or staged payments was available to local authorities to carry out the preparatory work, specifically licensing and survey work. That is where the issue lies, in particular with the case I am talking about in Cé Helvick, but in lots of other cases as well, because the...