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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not know whether it is official yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Deputy for coming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The reason this is happening today is the Minister asked for it to happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept the accuracy of the Deputy's questioning. Earlier, Mr. Gallagher undertook to give us all that before we go into the legislative phase.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2019: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: No, those are important questions.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland (9 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 324. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation herviews on criticism of the IDA policy relating to Drogheda published in the media (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29674/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (9 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 850. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of grants paid by each local authority to enable home adaptations to facilitate persons with disabilities or older persons live in or return to their homes from acute hospitals in each of the past three years; the average grant paid per local authority for each of the past three years; the average contribution per...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (4 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes in County Louth that are in the intervention area under the national broadband plan; when the roll-out of high speed broadband will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28562/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (4 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the key elements of the Climate Action Plan 2019; and the consultation and rolling review of the actions of the plan which will ensure its successful implementation. [28563/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence from an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28508/19]
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----it will leave serious problems. The Deputy can put that in his pipe and smoke it.
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the debate, but five minutes is a ridiculously short time for each Member's contribution. I wish to start with the good stuff the Government is doing in tackling climate change, particularly in the transport area. Public transport in Dublin is being transformed and will continue to be transformed by MetroLink, BusConnects and the DART expansion. I hope they will proceed with...
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I did not interrupt the Deputy. If he reads Deputy Dooley's speech, he will see in black and white-----
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----he is questioning the roads programme.
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: He is. The Deputy may have a Roscommon edition of it-----
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have The Irish Times edition of it and there is a bit of a difference between the two. I suggest he buysThe Irish Times.
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Put that man out and let him go home by public transport-----
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----rather than his big diesel-guzzling car.
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Let us be serious. The issue with the new roads programme, which Deputy Dooley when he is Minister will inflict on communities, is the absence of essential road works that are part and part and parcel of reducing our carbon footprint. The east-west and north-south improvements that will arise from the Slane bypass are important for the people who live there. If Deputy Dooley does not build...
- Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (Resumed) (27 Jun 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Irrespective of whatever deal Fianna Fáil might do with the Green Party or any other party, essential road improvements such as the Julianstown bypass will significantly reduce travel time and reduce our carbon footprint. I want to make one final point. When the motorway through Gormanston was being built, there were 20,000 cars per day going through the village of Julianstown. It was...