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Environmental Policy: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: Like my colleagues, I strongly support the Labour Party motion. Potentially four people die every day as a result of poor air quality. Deputies Burton and Browne mentioned some of the towns in Wexford. In some of those towns at night, smoky coal can be tasted in the air. If somebody has asthma or another respiratory illness, it causes serious problems. In some cases, people cannot even...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Services (18 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister but I am afraid that his answer is a bit of a cop-out. It is great that we will see him announce 41 new trains and I am sure he will be smiling beside them when that happens, but the problem is that we are not even getting any of those shiny new trains on the Rosslare route-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Services (18 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: -----we are getting what might be left over. I am not asking the Minister to drive the trains, I am asking him to drive rail policy. He has outlined some of the challenges we have with the single-track issue, the tunnels and the DART line, but this is about setting out a long=term vision to ensure that the people use the train and it is a viable alternative for people in counties Wexford...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Services (18 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: If the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport were to use the 16.33, 17.33 or 18.35 service from Connolly Station to travel to any of the towns along the Wicklow and Wexford coast that are served by the Rosslare rail line, it is unlikely that he would get a seat after the train has left the station. As someone who has used the service, I am aware of the regular problems caused by people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: Last week, I asked the Taoiseach about the programme for Government's commitments to investment in railways, specifically the Rosslare rail line. The Taoiseach informed me in his announcement that there would be trains for everywhere and the 48 new carriages would include carriages for the Rosslare rail line. In correspondence with Deputy Pat Casey and Wicklow County Council, Irish Rail has...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: I specifically asked the Taoiseach about the carriages.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the submission of the application from the institutes of technology in counties Carlow and Waterford for designation as a technological university; and the measures he is taking to assist in such a designation. [53157/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the shortage of second-level school places in Gorey, County Wexford at present and over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53158/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the shortage of second-level school places in Wexford town at present and over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53159/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Pollution (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 571. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will permit Wexford County Council to proceed with its unanimously agreed motion to ban the sale and use of smoky calls in the county. [53161/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at certain peak times on rail services on the Rosslare rail line; his plans for enhanced services on the line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53150/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the completion of the M11 motorway from Oylegate to Rosslare. [53151/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking or plans to undertake to develop Rosslare Europort in order to attract greater freight and passenger traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53152/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Reform (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing or supporting legislation to provide for a reduction in the voting for the local elections in 2024 further to the decision of the Citizens’ Assembly to recommend reducing the voting age to 16 years of age. [53155/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 764. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers devolved from central Government to local government since he came to office; and the powers removed from local authorities in the same period. [53156/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 790. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the challenge facing many artistic and cultural organisations in obtaining insurance and the cost of the insurance; the measures she can put in place in circumstances in which such organisations are unable to obtain insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53153/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (17 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: 791. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider the development of a scheme to support amateur drama and musicals which represent an important part in community arts infrastructure; the supports available for such groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53154/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: In the context of the commitment in the programme for Government to establish an independent electoral commission, does the Taoiseach envisage that such a commission would have a role in overseeing a situation where a political party distributed fake letters, such as those as we have seen in the Foyle constituency in the North's election? Does he share my view that this attempt to smear the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: The Taoiseach referred earlier to page 127 of the programme for Government and the Government's planned investment in railways, but the one railway line he omitted in his long list was the Rosslare line. I have corresponded in my previous life with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on investment in the Rosslare rail line, particularly as an alternative to the M11. I am aware...

Report on Examination of School Costs, School Facilities and Teaching Principals: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2019)

Malcolm Byrne: Cuirim fáilte freisin roimh an tuarascáil an-tábhachtach seo. Many points noted in the report have been well made by Deputies. The fact that there is cross-party consensus on the matter speaks to the importance of education for the Irish body politic and for achieving social and economic goals for the country. My colleague, Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan, referred to...