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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 53:In page 8, after line 38, to insert the following:"(13) A local authority may notify the Minister or the Government in writing of-----(a) its intention to adopt, or (b) its having adopted, such mitigation measures as are specified in the notification concerned in relation to that local authority’s administrative area.". This amendment complements amendment...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 57:In page 10, line 31, to delete "Expert Advisory Council" and substitute "Advisory Council".

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: This amendment calls for the phrase "have regard to" to be replaced with, inter alia, "comply" in section 4(7) of the Bill. With due respect, I do not believe this amendment makes sense as there are competing considerations when developing a national mitigation plan, all of which cannot be complied with fully at the same time. Accordingly, I believe the phrase "have regard to" is the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The proposed amendment seeks to ensure that Ministers responsible for sectoral mitigation measures cannot revise downward any mitigation targets contained in a national mitigation plan. This, unfortunately, is to misunderstand the nature of the national mitigation plan, which is designed to specify how greenhouse gas emission reductions are to be achieved and not the quantum of reductions to...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 37:In page 7, line 18, to delete "Expert Advisory Council" and substitute "Advisory Council".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe to discuss the mid-year review of the Estimates for transport, tourism and sport - Vote 31. The purpose of this morning’s session is to engage with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in order to assist the committee in undertaking a mid-year review of the position on outputs and expenditure with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I apologise for not calling Deputy O'Donovan earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: We will discuss this in the second session. The purpose of this session is to deal with performance measures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Before I call the Minister to respond, we have to suspend for a vote. I will call him to respond when we reconvene.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I call the meeting to order. The Minister will reply to Deputy O'Donovan's questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I call Deputy Fleming. Let me remind members that we are dealing with performance measures for the 2015 Estimates. In the second part of the meeting we will deal with general questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Is this about performance measurement? That is what this session is supposed to be about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Minister. Are there any further questions on the performance measures? If not, we can move on to the second part of this meeting. Deputy Griffin has indicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: It is clear there are no more questions on performance measures. Before we move on to the second session, I would like to know whether the Minister and his officials accept that there is room for improvement in the performance measures. Perhaps this has been covered already. Will the Minister and his officials engage with the Oireachtas secretariat to identify improvements in those measures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Minister. Does the committee agree to meet again to consider a report on the progress that has been made? Agreed. Will we will move on to the second session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: We are moving on to session 2 and a lot of the issues have already been covered. Does the Minister want to deliver his report or will we take it as read and circulate it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Despite my efforts to confine it to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Minister for coming to and engaging with the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Sep 2015)

Paudie Coffey: The Retail Planning Guidelines published by my Department in 2012, provide overall policy direction for local authorities in relation to retail development. The Guidelines provide advice to local authorities with regard to preparing the content of development plans and require a proactive approach to the development of city and town centres, assessing their vitality and viability,...