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Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 17 January 2019. As a final piece of business, I thank the Deputies, the Minister of State and the Minister. I also thank my colleagues and all the staff of the Houses for all their work and efforts in this term. I thank the people in the Gallery for visiting. I wish all...

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: As Deputy Sherlock used all of his time and more, poor Deputy Fitzmaurice has been excluded. As I know that would not be the desire of the House, if it is its wish, he can have a two-minute slot. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank my colleague, Deputy Troy, for raising this issue. I thank those in the Gallery for their patience. There are a number of issues but I will frame my short contribution around several key points. Clearly cycling's time has come. There has never been such an appetite or enthusiasm for cycling and such a growth in cycling and the use of bicycles in Ireland. I am particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Can one of the witnesses name the utilities the CRU regulates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I represent Dublin South-West, which is located in the area administered by South Dublin County Council and it has a social housing stock of approximately 10,000 houses. That can be replicated in every local authority area although the numbers would be different. Those 10,000 homes would comprise 10,000 individual customers with different accounts across the utility companies. I have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: The new ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: There is still a significant stock of homes from the 1970s and 1980s.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Is there a gain in that for a bulk buyer, in terms of the objective of all of us, from a carbon footprint point of view? If a local authority decided it was something it could do and get involved in, would there be a gain? It is not just about the best deals. It is about beginning a process of reducing energy use and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Things have changed. Ms MacEvilly referred to the customer, but she is wrong in this regard. Someone who rents a house, not from a local authority, approached me recently and asked whether rules could be brought in to obligate landlords to introduce the best energy technology in their home. He said he is very much in favour of doing what he can to reduce his carbon footprint but his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Examination of the Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: There is nothing precluding bulk purchase, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank Deputy Coppinger for allowing me to speak first. Many of the points I propose to make today I made already to the NTA when we met it as a group, but I want to put them on the public record. The NTA has contracted out 10% of services. I disagree with Deputy Ellis that that percentage will increase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: The NTA and my colleagues know that my party are champions of Dublin Bus and public representatives are sometimes afraid to call out its failings. Employees of Go-Ahead are also workers. There are two Go-Ahead routes operating in my own area. It is still at an early phase and if, after six months, there are still issues, they should be raised then. I have a problem with the Minister's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the delay between the implementation of the BusConnects network redesign and the planned roll out of the new core bus corridors and lanes. [52436/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank the Acting Chairman for the riding instruction. What are the Minister's views on the delay between BusConnects phase 2, which relates to the bus spines and new corridors that we, on this side of the House, strongly support, and the implementation of phase 1, which relates to the network changes?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I know the Minister supports this, as do we on this side of the House. Phase 2 puts in place the infrastructure. We believe it makes more sense to implement phase 1 first, to put in place the corridors, and then change the network. According to a briefing we received last week by the NTA and Dublin Bus, some of these corridors will not be in place until 2027, the date for the construction...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: That is the point - it is a long process. I would love if the Minster devoted the same energy as he does to traffic safety, which is laudable, into a dynamic intervention into this. People cannot be encouraged or expected to switch from cars to buses if the bus infrastructure is not in place. This speaks to the matter that arises time and again. I raised it yesterday with respect to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour (12 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of anti-social behaviour incidents that have been reported on Luas lines to date in 2018. [52391/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traffic Management (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: The Minister started by saying it must be wonderful to be in opposition and raising traffic congestion, which is the gift that keeps on giving. It does not give me any pleasure to do it because it is a problem on which he does not appear to be making an impact. I have not seen a significant Garda presence on the street. However, let us keep the focus on positive matters. Did the Minister...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traffic Management (11 Dec 2018)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister, Deputy Ross, for coming to the House to address this issue. He is one of the few Cabinet Ministers that turns up for Topical Issue matters on a consistent basis.