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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Has the NTA identified a new depot yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I want to ask a local question about the 115 bus route. I have written to the NTA but have not received responses. I do not know why we have an email for the NTA when it is so hard to get a response from it. Who has the authority the move a bus stop? The bus stop for the 115 was moved on the old bog road because it was stated that it was dangerous. It is a very straight, wide road. I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I think it is about smoothing the route. People have to walk 2.5 km down-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: When the NTA is allocating routes to private companies, what kind of oversight does it have to make sure that the fleet is in working order and that the operator has replacement vehicles in case of breakdowns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Should that not be necessary when private operators are being given licences for public transport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I will write to Mr. Creegan about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: No.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I was not particularly excited about this particular meeting, but I have to say the witnesses have certainly changed my mind about it. It is much more interesting than I was expecting.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I have a question for Engineers Ireland, which noted that engineers are in short supply and that Ireland is going to need 22,000 additional engineers over the course of the next decade to meet the demands of various sectors. Does Engineers Ireland think we can meet those targets? I am also interested in what was said about local authorities overseeing national projects. Are there any county...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: There is only one local authority that has that?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Local authorities, with the education training boards and such, could play a part. There are a lot more primary schools now under the ETB than there ever was. Gaelscoileanna and so on are under the ETB-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: All the witnesses have mentioned multi-annual funding and that pipeline continuity. I think the ACEI statement mentioned red tape and how the EU laws and regulations are transposed into Irish law. I do not know how an EU communication can be two-pages long in Spain and 200-pages long in Ireland. I used to live in Spain, and it is really easy to get planning there. You go down to the...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I was unsure what the Chair's laughing meant.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Yes, it is just so simple. Why are we transposing EU legislation and making it 200 pages and other European countries can do it with two pages?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Is that the report the witness has?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: Is there an example of EU legislation that is 200 pages in Irish legislation and two pages in Spanish? Can witnesses back that claim up?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I would be really interested in that because that is a job committees do. We are in charge of making sure those laws are transposed.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Réada Cronin: I remember as a councillor I would get all the reports. I often wondered if anybody read them or even the county development plan. I remember when I was elected only a couple of months before and I was handed this huge thing. I was the first Sinn Féin member to be elected in Kildare and I just wanted the Six Counties back, to be honest. I was handed this big national development...