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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: The Arup report was all wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: Did you factor Covid and so on into that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: Covid was unprecedented and unexpected, so how would those have been factored in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: I apologise for interrupting, but I am short on time and have a few questions. Mr. O'Connell referenced the Indecon report as being based on long-term historic data.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: This is based on a constant growth scenario that dates prior to climate targets, biodiversity challenge targets and the European green deal targets. It is historic and dates prior to these measures being enacted. I suggest the assumptions that have been made are very high. At present the port has 60% imports and 40% exports. Mr. O'Connell suggests we will double what was predicted in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: I want to move on to the transport aspects. Mr. O'Connell said 73% of road haulage emanates within 90 km of the port. Where does the other 30% come from? Is it from beyond 90 km?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: That is a lot of road freight coming in and out of Dublin Port. Mr. O'Connell has said the ro-ro is under pressure. How many extra HGV movements would Mr. O'Connell expect on an already very constrained M50 as a result of this growth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: Will Mr. O'Connell put a figure on what we could expect in extra HGV movements on the M50 as a result of the growth predictions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: A 75% increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: On what number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: Ten thousand per day?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: And Mr. O'Connell expects this to increase by 75% per day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: That is a lot of truck movement on a heavily congested M50. How does this align with our objective of trying to reduce emissions from transport?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: To me this suggests we need to look seriously at a rebalancing of the capacity of the regional ports to take some of this, notwithstanding the very strategic importance of Dublin. We need to look at rebalancing to Foynes and Rosslare, which have very good rail freight capacity. I do not see much improvement in rail freight in Dublin Port's strategy. Why is this when we see that rail...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: That is because we have not included any opportunity to expand rail in the port.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: Do our climate targets and serious climate objectives not generate this demand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: We have to look again at how we transport freight around the country. At present we are on approximately 1% of freight. The European target is 18%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: So rail freight is worse for emissions than road haulage in Mr. O'Connell's view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: This is a big "could be" statement. We need to look more seriously at the opportunity for increased rail freight out of Dublin Port than there is at present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)
Steven Matthews: I am running out of time and I have more questions. I hope there will be a second round to allow for more questioning. It was suggested that it is all or nothing with regard to the 3FM project. Does Mr. O'Connell see scope to allow for more housing opportunities in the existing footprint and more opportunities for nature? I have looked at the slides in the audiovisual walk-through....