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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 672. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive the pandemic special recognition payment. [11534/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coast Guard Service (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish an inquiry to independently review the structure, governance, management and organisational culture at the Irish Coast Guard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10515/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coast Guard Service (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I ask the Minister if he will establish an inquiry to independently review the structural governance, management and organisational culture at the Irish Coast Guard and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coast Guard Service (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome that news and I take from it an acknowledgement. A number of members of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications are in the Chamber. The committee held a series of hearings last year with representatives from the Department, senior management at the Irish Coast Guard and representatives of the Coastal Unit Advisory Group, CUAG, and the Irish Coast Guard Volunteers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coast Guard Service (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister of State. It is important that the ICGVRA is afforded the opportunity to make a submission to the review and is fully engaged, as well as CUAG and other interested parties. I encourage the Minister of State to meet representatives of the association. I take a positive from what the Minister of State said, that there is an opportunity to address the range of issues in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I accept that there is activity here and that it is not all about funding, but if the funding is not there, the deck of cards will fall and we will not be in a position to deliver on it. We know Irish ports have applied for TEN-T and CEF funding and have been completely unsuccessful in securing funding. While we hope the applications are successful, we cannot put all our eggs into that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: There are lots of international examples in other states.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Other countries have managed to find a way around that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the measures he will take in 2023 to support Irish ports in readying themselves to help deliver on Ireland's offshore wind potential; if, drawing on European examples, options for direct State funding for ports have been explored and will be employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10509/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I will ask the Minister if he will outline the measures he will take in 2023 to support Irish ports in readying themselves to help deliver on Ireland's offshore wind potential. If drawing on European examples, options for direct state funding for ports have been explored and will be employed. Will he make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Ports Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I would appreciate if the Minister of State came back on this. I could have read that response, because it is exactly the same as a written response I received a number of weeks ago. This is something I have been pursuing, month after month and season after season, in the Dáil at Question Time. I am deeply concerned about this. What I am hearing from the Government is that we have a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Car Test (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on NCT delays; the number of customers who have been afforded a free test in 2022 and 2023, in line with the recently reintroduced provision of the customer charter; the date on which a company (details supplied) will meet its 12-day waiting time target; the penalties it has faced to date for failing to meet...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Car Test (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Will the Minister provide an update on the national car test, NCT, delays; the number of customers afforded a free test in 2022 and to date in 2023, in line with the recently reintroduced provision of the customer charter; the date on which the company concerned will meet its 12-day waiting time target; and the penalties it has faced to date for failing to meet this target? Will he make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Car Test (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. I am concerned about what we have we heard from Applus and the RSA, and the Minister of State is today just reflecting figures that Applus is giving him. He said 35,000 tests have been done, a significant improvement on December; however, it is no improvement at all on the figures we were given in the committee on 23 January. The figures the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Car Test (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: My sense is Applus is giving the RSA and the Government the runaround. That is my firm position. This company came before the Oireachtas committee and said the big issue was no-shows and people not turning up. When we questioned them on it, it transpired they are operating at 100% capacity and all those slots are filled. If there are no-shows, in some cases they are getting paid 150%....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on taxi licence numbers, driver numbers and late night working following the recent driver recruitment campaign; if the restriction on plate transferability is recognised as a barrier to recruitment; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10512/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline his plans to bring forward legislative provision for experimental road traffic orders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10513/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to address the interference of drone activity on civil aviation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10511/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to create a second-hand market for electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10514/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. I raise the sector's role in the energy transition, with a particular focus on solar. It operates at different scales, at a utility scale in large holdings, with a number in my own county, Meath. It is also on farm sheds, commercial buildings and piggeries. I ask the Minister for an update on that, the opportunity he sees in it and the efforts to try to realise it....