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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Are the current phases on schedule at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: That is good. The last word I got was that it would be launched in 2023, so we will hold you to that. I will move on now to the N11 and the express bus routes. Can the NTA representatives give us an update of where that is at the moment? Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, was in last week and I understand this project is in co-operation with TII, NTA and Wicklow County Council. My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: The infrastructure needs to go further south than Glen of the Downs. It is achievable and doable. The NTA has responsibility for services and for making them attractive to encourage people onto them. If we do not have the infrastructure in place to make them run in a timely manner, however, it will not work. Is TII solely responsible for ensuring that infrastructure is in place while the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: There is a vote in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I welcome Mr. Coyne, Mr. Jose and Ms Morrissey. I thank them for their attendance and their opening statements. I have two questions for Mr. Coyne and two questions for the Dublin Commuter Coalition, DCC. It was interesting to hear Mr. Coyne talking about the first bus lane coming into operation 30 years ago. I was working in Donnybrook bus garage 30 years ago. I was putting in the first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I took me 30 years to get here and to get Dublin Bus in before the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I believe there is a statute of limitations on possible interests, is there not? We were putting in the first electronic ticketing machines at that stage. I compliment Dublin Bus on the advancement in the fleet and the service over the last 30 years. I recommend that anyone who has not travelled on a bus in quite a while to try out the services. On the routes I use, the services are very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I am sorry. I have a third question for Dublin Bus. We had a really good session in here a while ago based on a TII report, Travelling in a Woman's Shoes. It is about vulnerable users on public transport. On the location of bus shelters, does Dublin Bus work with local authorities or others who have input into the landscape when bus stops create security issues as a result of being in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Mr. Coyne is correct. Liability, frequency and punctuality are all important aspects, to which I might add security, affordability and comfort. Turning to our guests from the DCC, we talked about road space allocation in the earlier session with representatives of the NTA, which they may or may not have heard. This issue creates some of the strongest conflicts in communities when there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I fail to see how we will tackle climate emissions when that is the reaction we get. If the people who have to make the decisions, who are often local councillors, knew they had more support for these projects from those people who see the benefit in them, that might assist them in trying to make a difficult decision. Mr. Jose talked about the ambition in the greater Dublin area strategy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Yes, but the economy's resources are being used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: DART underground is an omission, in my opinion. There was a €3 billion price tag on the project at the time and there was a really good benefit-to-cost ratio but it was shelved. For me, the party that shelved it had no interest in railways. I will leave it at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I welcome the delegations. Today is the second in a series of meetings we are having on carbon and energy in construction. At our previous meeting we heard from the Department and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. Just last week we also had a meeting on the energy performance of buildings directive that strayed into embodied carbon and carbon in construction as well, so it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Christal for that opening statement. I propose to go next to Mr. Ciarán O'Connor from the Office of Public Works, OPW. As Mr. O'Connor has a slide presentation that possibly can be shared on the screen, I will go to next to Mr. Barry of the Irish Green Building Council next and then we can work on those slides and I will come back to Mr. O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. O’Connor. I note that the Select Committee on Environment and Climate Action today completed its consideration of Committee Stage of the Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022, which feeds into much of what we are discussing. I know that Deputy Darren O’Rourke was present for that long session today. That work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I thank Ms Phelan. I should have mentioned she is joined by Mr. Richard Butler. I did not welcome him at the start. Ms Marion Jammet, of the Irish Green Building Council, is also welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: We will start with Enterprise Ireland and we can come back to some of the questions if we do not have time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: We might have time for the guests from the National Building Control Office to briefly address the question of the 10 m height restriction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: We will come back to the other questions for Mr. Barry and Mr. O'Connor. Are we all reading Supercharge Me at the moment? It seems that way. I will move to Deputy Higgins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: I am going to take the next slot, the Green Party slot. We had an interesting discussion at the end of our last meeting about the planning system and where it can play a role. A figure of 14% was given in respect of embodied carbon in construction. Where somebody wishes to build, is it too easy to demolish what is in place and construct a new building? Is there work we need to do in this...