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

Roderic O'Gorman: What is the process to get approval for that?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: We have spoken about the noise issue before. Both of those points have been proposed as big game-changers of the noise. However, both seem to be quite a distance away of being delivered or at least there is uncertainty on both of those points.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Does Manna operate from the Coolmine Industrial Estate in Dublin 15?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Since when?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: How many bases are in the Dublin 15 area?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: It is Coolmine Industrial Estate, Junction 6 and Blanchardstown Centre.

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I live close to the Junction 6 base. How does the process unfold if I wanted to not have Manna Air Delivery drones fly over my house? How far as the householder can I request or insist that it flies around my house?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: How far is that blockage?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: Is it just over the property?

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

Roderic O'Gorman: I will take a step back. What I would like to know is where is the conversation being had about how much of the movement of goods that currently takes place on our roads is appropriate to move into our skies. When I visited the base, Mr. Healy showed me the map of all the journeys his company had done. If Manna had a competitor that wanted to compete with it in this field, for example, if...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Parks (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether he would advance the concept of an enclosed off-leash area for dogs in the Phoenix Park, close to the Ashtown Gate or the Hole in the Wall pedestrian gate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38177/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 218. To ask the Minister for Health whether she has been made aware of the current shortage in Ireland of a number of pain relief medications (details supplied); if she can outline the role the Health Products Regulatory Authority can play in ensuring alternative supplies are made available to hospices and community pharmacies caring for these patients, whether this be by expediting the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister has spoken in great detail about the various supports that exist for students, but the issue people want clarity on and need to know about is the question of how much the student contribution will be in September. The reason they are asking that question is because of his comments on "This Week". He opened this Pandora's box, and he has the capacity to close it if he so wishes....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister is right. I was in government when the cost-of-living measures in the area of the student contribution were agreed. That is why, whereas there is a lot on the programme for Government I am critical of, I welcomed the commitment in there to continue to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government. I took from that the clear meaning that every student...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify his recent comments regarding the student contribution fee, and if he will give clarity on how much students and their families will be paying in September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37646/25]

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are now on day nine of this fiasco. Time and again last week and even this afternoon in the Dáil, the mantra “the normal budgetary process” has been trotted out by the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, and the Ministers for Finance, public expenditure and further and higher education. Yes, there is a normal budgetary process but we are far outside that process on the single...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress on implementing the Programme for Government commitment to “Continue to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government to ease the financial burden on students and families at the start of each academic year, in a financially sustainable manner”; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is aware of the issues and confusion being caused by the naming of two driver test centres in Mulhuddart, one near a hotel in Tyrrelstown (details supplied), and one at Parslickstown, Mulhuddart, and that this naming of two centres as 'Mulhuddart' is causing people undertaking tests to go to the wrong centre and miss...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time for applications for a driving licence after a driving test has been passed; the steps he is taking to reduce this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37639/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (8 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when camera enforcement of bus lanes will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37923/25]