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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date when the 40D route will be extended to serve Hollywoodrath; the details on the changes being made to this route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the stage 3 report of a school extension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38331/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the witnesses for being here today. They may have noticed that drones are getting a lot of attention at the moment. Let me be clear; I am from Dublin West and this is no small, local matter. Dublin 15 is being used as a test ground to launch commercial drone operations nationally and globally. The decisions the Government is making now will shape how home deliveries and drone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: It is all three.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Could I get an answer to my question about the integrated framework?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Does Professor McCarthy agree it is about balancing innovation with residential amenity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I really want to focus on the gaps and disconnects in current regulations that are affecting communities. We have established that there is no authority responsible for monitoring drone-generated environmental noise. Has there been any independent verification of the Trinity College noise report on Manna's drones which claims that drone flyovers in Dublin 15 stick out by 5 dB? It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I am going to move on to planning and licensing. The IAA issued a light UAS operator certificate permitting the use of sub-bases at junction 6 and Clonsilla and a main base at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre for commercial drone operations. Commercial operations are not permitted at Clonsilla, so Fingal used enforcement powers to shut the operation down. The same is likely to happen at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: As a result, there are major gaps concerning noise and integrating with the local planning code.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: The witnesses are very welcome. As a commercial entity, I understand Mr. Healy's company operates within the existing regulatory framework. It is up to us as legislators to push for better regulation and for the Government to provide it. Does Mr. Healy accept that the test period in Dublin 15 needs to end and that we need an integrated regulatory framework that deals with the legitimate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: In the company's noise report it is claiming a baseline of 52 dB for Dublin 15. I am wondering where that baseline has come from. Is that based on somebody's back garden?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: According to the report I read, it is a 52 dB space. It goes up to 59 dB to 62 dB for a flyover and then goes up again when it is hovering. I am asking about the 52 dB level Mr. Healy is using in relation to the standard experience of noise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: On the issue of the noise, when I speak to residents, they are of the view that their back garden noise would be around 40 dB to 46 dB. We have been contacted by some residents in Glasnevin where it is 43 dB and upwards. The baseline that Manna is using its research references 52 dB as standard urban noise, whereas back gardens seem to be much lower than that. With a lower baseline based...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Is this when it is not somebody's back garden?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: That could be a streetscape.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: How is Mr. Healy engaging with U-space?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Is that relating to flight paths, schedules and noise? Does Mr. Healy think that is a solution going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: I am coming back to Manna with more questions. How exactly does it handle the no-fly requests?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Emer Currie: Some of the residents have said to me that they might be blocked for a couple of weeks but then they are unblocked. Is that happening?