Results 15,781-15,800 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I wish to acknowledge the contributions aimed at improving the Bill made by Opposition Deputies, including Deputy Coppinger and others present, on and since Committee Stage. We did not agree on everything but we agreed on quite a lot. I am sure that will become clear on this Stage. It is a better Bill as a result of the robust debate and amendments made on Committee Stage. I hope that...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I fully understand the Deputies' anxiety about references to health. There is no disagreement about this at all. The Deputies are right that we did state that we would make a reference to health in the Bill. There may be some misunderstanding here. I am providing specific reference to health later in the Bill. Deputy Brendan Ryan asked which amendments that is in and it is amendments...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: They are amendments Nos. 59, 78 and 79.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I am not sure if I did not get this through the first time. I cannot introduce this amendment because on legal advice it is impossible and it would negate the Bill. This is introducing an EU regulation which cannot be changed in this way. Were I to do this, the Bill just would not work. I have tried to meet - which I think we have done - what Deputies Troy, Pottinger and Clare Daly...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: ----- the need to protect the health-----
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I am sorry; I have said that before. I apologise.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I apologise. I am trying to meet the health needs of the residents as far as I can. The Deputies should not ask me to introduce something that takes away the meaning or text of EU Regulation 598/2014, because if I do not implement the directive in full and as it stands, I would not be fulfilling the requirements of our obligations to the EU. That has to happen; that is the way it has to...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: The debate has been very useful. I acknowledge that there is a great deal of sincerity and merit in what many speakers have said, but I think they miss the point that it is very difficult to make changes to the Bill and that it is very difficult to accept many of the amendments because we are implementing an EU directive which we cannot change. We are now dealing with the most contentious...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: The Deputy did say it.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: That is not total capture. I accept that the council receives 8% of its revenue from one source, but it must be acknowledged that it obtains 92% of its revenue from elsewhere.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: Let us not hype it up to an extent which is pretty well unacceptable. I accept the merits of what has been said about the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, and the Commission for Aviation Regulation, CAR. Everybody knows that the IAA was the first choice, but what happened was that the Attorney General was of the view that there was too big of a conflict of interest. We accepted this. We went...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I ask Deputies to accept that this is the best choice. It is the best fit. When we look at some of the arguments about the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the merits of having environmental or noise expertise, Fingal County Council wins hands down on those criteria.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: That is correct and there has never been any doubt about it.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: Do I have two more opportunities?
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: It is appropriate to make it absolutely clear that there was no suggestion that anybody outside of the Government made a decision on the choice of the competent authority. That is our responsibility, and we are standing over Fingal County Council. On other amendments I said we could not interfere with the EU directive. It is not part of the directive to direct us who to choose. We chose...
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: It is relevant because-----
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: -----people were allowed to say extraordinary things.
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: How far did everybody in this House go towards engaging-----
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: No, I want to talk about engaging-----
- Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: I am not suggesting that.