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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I thought the Cathaoirleach had forgotten me and that it was a Corkonian thing.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I would like to comment on the legislation passed by the Houses last week on the new arrangements regarding local government in the city and county of Cork. The Act has been signed into law. On 4 June 2019, the boundaries of Cork City Council will be extended to cover a major portion of the county's population, perhaps as many as 80,000 people. The city council will assume responsibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I welcome and acknowledge the representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The live export trade is a very important leg of our beef industry. In my part of the world the black and white calf is the big name of the game. Bandon Mart, which is only a few miles away from me, is now proposing to have two sale days, which has never been heard of. They are talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: How many ferry companies are there in this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I want to follow on briefly from the comment made on Brexit and the UK market. There is a significant market in the United Kingdom for breeding dairy stock, in the southern part in particular. It depends on currency exchange rates. There might be nothing one year and a big fluctuation the next. On moving in-calf heifers and dairy stock to the United Kingdom, what will the impact of Brexit...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I was not going to mention the pharmacy issue but it is an important one and a debate in the House on it is pertinent. I will raise an issue the Cathaoirleach is very much aware of, particularly in our part of the world, namely, the crisis in the beef industry. The weekly kill has gone from over 40,000 head of cattle before Christmas to 36,000 last week. We have a significant crisis of...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister and the officials to the House. This is a very important debate which falls into the approach we have taken on this issue, in particular in recent months. I must reference the Joint Committee on Climate Action which has been working diligently for the past two and a half months. The next three weeks will be very important for that committee. Several Members of this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Ferry Services Provision (23 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: This morning I put down a Commencement matter for the attention of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. In light of Irish Ferries' plan to reduce its services through Rosslare Europort I ask the Minister to clarify the national strategy to promote the viability of trade routes between southern Ireland and the Continent. I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. It is an important...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Ferry Services Provision (23 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response on the state of our shipping industry and how we are supporting the market. From my point of view it is about creating access, particularly from the southern half of Ireland. I mentioned Cork Port in 2012. I saw the results in 2012 when we lost that ferry. I saw what it did to our industries, whether it was haulage or tourism. There is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2019)

Tim Lombard: I wish to raise the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill which we passed in this House, on 10 October 2018. It is important legislation that will hopefully change our outlook on alcohol. I raise the issue in light of statements that have been made in the press in recent days regarding taxi loads of students and others turning up at early houses in Cork city at 7 a.m. It is a an issue at the...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I want to wish everyone a happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year. It has been a very positive year so far, and hopefully we can end it on a positive note. My colleague, Senator Kieran O'Donnell, made an interesting point about climate change and where we are going with that. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Climate Action which will publish a report on that issue by the end of...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: Senator Colm Burke was treated in an appalling manner at the meeting of the joint committee yesterday. I missed the meeting but the Leader needs to address the issue because we have parity in those committees.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: An issue I have been chasing for many months is how we deal with Irish Water. In my part of the world, a water main has broken 18 times in the past 14 months. There was a gate valve so that the village, Ballinhassig, could be fed from both sides. Irish Water has announced that it will look at the issue but it must do a cost-benefit analysis of putting in another gate valve. It involves...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the opportunity to comment on section 14, which involves the transfer of the assets and liabilities of one local authority to another. Perhaps the Minister of State might clarify the situation in respect of the value and the process that will be used to value these properties. Some major properties have loans while others do not. How does the Minister of State propose that an...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I think the issue has more to do with value. Take the example of a major project in Douglas in which the county council invested significant sums of money over the past decade not knowing that this process was going to happen. While the county council could have invested this money in Clonakilty or some other part of the local authority area,...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: Senator Boyhan said that all political forces in Cork were fully in favour of this proposal but, to be clear, I was never in favour of what is being proposed today. My view has always been that this is just a stepping stone to where we need to be. It will take two steps rather than one and, in a decade, we might go where we should have gone, which is to one local authority. I will support...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I was going to raise the mapping of boundaries in section 17 or 28. Who, in God's name, was involved in mapping the boundaries? The usual protocol for mapping was to consider the electoral divisions, EDs, but if they were not good enough one would use townlands. None of those protocols was used. A townland in Moneygourney, County Cork has been divided between two local authorities - a...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: We need to be proactive in this space as we have made a mistake. The Minister of State must provide a helpline, extend a deadline or whatever so that people have enough time to find out where they stand. More importantly, such measures would allow local government staff to determine who lives on what road and where live. There are nine houses on one particular road in Moneygourney but...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: I appreciate that the Minister of State has exceptional knowledge of what happened in some locations in the 1950s and 1960s, which is before I was born. I refer to the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act 1992, which means that by 15 February we need to have a register in place. That register is important because it will mean that people can cast their votes in European, local...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Tim Lombard: The issue of whether this works is very important. How we actually gauge and measure that is something we have to look at from the point of view of issues pertaining to both the city and the county. That is very important. Funding is going to be a key issue here. It will be a key issue to ensuring that we have a viable county and a prosperous city. The old system had its faults. We had...