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

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. Mr. Creegan said in his statement that delivery times are one of the challenges for delivering on emissions. He has just stated that things have happened but there is still a lot more to be done. I would say there is a lot more to be done and it needs to be done a whole lot more quickly. London, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Edinburgh,...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Across Dublin?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: After that, I think Iarnród Éireann is phase 3 to be rolled out, and following that will be commuter bus services outside the Dublin area. Does Mr. Creegan have a timeline for when that will be complete?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Infrastructure and making it easy for the public-----

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

Jennifer Whitmore: This is really important. In order for people to use public transport-----

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

Jennifer Whitmore: -----and move out of the car, we have to make it easy for them. This is a part of that. This is one of the things. I think Mr. Cooke mentioned that a contactless system was important.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Has the company not planned that out? I find it unusual that the NTA does not have any date for the final implementation of this.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: The NTA does not have funding for the full project.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Just for Dublin.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I find that unusual because I would have imagined it could be the case that the different systems would be put in in parallel for Iarnród Éireann and commuter bus services, and that the systems for that could be developed in parallel with the system for Dublin. It seems like a long and expensive way to put in fundamental infrastructure.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: The Netherlands has done it and completed it two years ago.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: It did..

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

Jennifer Whitmore: The other important point mentioned is public acceptance and buy-in. Most of my experience of public transport is in my constituency, so I will make my point in that context. My constituency has the DART, commuter trains and rural transport. It covers all of the remit. One of the biggest problems is not that people do not want to use public transport but that the service is either not...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Which is very welcome.

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

Jennifer Whitmore: The difficulty is that this project has been in the plans for five or six years. It has been promised on multiple occasions but keeps being pushed out. Is there a final date for it?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: But not outside. I am a bit confused. I would imagine that if the NTA was signing a contract with a company, it would have asked the company for a timeline for how quickly it can put this system in place if the funding was available. Was that not asked of the company? Has it not done a business plan going forward, with Gantt charts or whatever other project management plans in place?

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

Jennifer Whitmore: Returning to Mr. Creegan's point, tolls or restrictions on people going into the city would be deeply unpopular. At this stage, it would also be deeply unfair because, as I said, if we take Wicklow as an example, people want to use public transport but the service is not there for them. For example, the 133 is the bus from Wicklow town into Dublin. Every September, there are problems...

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

Jennifer Whitmore: I think the change was to the grey to green carriages or vice versa. It has been causing a lot of problems. I would appreciate if Mr. Creegan looked into that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the witnesses. From the discussions we have had to date, it is safe to say there is a real need or want within the committee to prioritise low-impact fishers. We recognise that they are continually being squeezed into a harder and harder situation in regard to their ability to not only make money from their craft, but to undertake that craft. I am looking at some of the information...