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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Heritage sites will be an important part of development. They may be matters where local authorities take on a role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The OPW is an option. My instinct is that the local councils might be a better home for the development of heritage centres but that is the sort of issue that a chairperson and the board will have to decide and act on. The Deputy is right that connectivity for Aer Lingus to the likes of London Heathrow and the east coast of the US is key. My sense of how this will work is that the key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: They are not small questions. The key thing might be to look at other State services that we could develop through our post office network. Perhaps we could look at other finance instruments, investment, savings or other instruments. The real strength of the post office network is that post offices are trusted intermediaries in local communities. If I correctly recall a Dáil debate,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The national broadband plan is critical infrastructure. It was obviously affected by the onset of Covid-19 last year and also during the first months of this year. There have been a variety of difficulties, including with contractors coming over from the UK and workers being out because they have tested positive or have been close contacts of someone else who has tested positive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I would not rule out that option, but what we are doing with the national broadband plan, and what Eir and SIRO are also doing with their respective networks, in putting fibre or equivalent connections into homes will be the winning technology in the years to come. Fibre technology has advantages over satellite which means it will be the solution in the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I apologise for not having addressed those issues for the Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: An Post has had a long relationship with AIB in providing some over-the-counter services and it now has a partnership with Bank of Ireland. Reiterating what I said to Deputy Crowe earlier, a good example of what An Post has done is its work with Scottish and Southern Energy, SSE, Airtricity. The advertisements can be seen on television for the wraparound service to improve homes. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is not just community banking in terms of the post office networks. We must be careful on the banking side. It is an industry in flux. We have stopped using cash because of Covid-19. How many here have a Revolut card? How many of their relations are being queried on that? However, that is a separate issue. I kid you not, the questions my family have been asked on that are shocking....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We need to see a variety of different services. Someone said these are centres of local and national government. Another example is getting a new driver licence, which is not easy at present. It is a big palaver in which one has to get an appointment in a relatively distant location. Could we deliver that kind of service where a physical presence is needed? It cannot be done online. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Government will not let that occur. It is too strategically important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I have been distracted from the other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We have invested massively in our road network over the last 30 years. The first priority should be considering safety issues or pinch points, as the Deputy said. A large number of small bypasses, such as the centre of our-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I can think of several examples. Town centres are first. Rather than a bypass that costs €0.25 billion which is 25 km long, a 5 km bypass could achieve the objective of solving our traffic problems, improving traffic safety and, critically, reviving the town. I would like to move towards the reprioritisation of town bypasses in the national development plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It will go to Cabinet in the next two or three weeks before it goes to public consultation. It will go out to public consultation by the end of March. It is part of a long process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It will go to Cabinet before and after. I read the discussions with my Secretary General on this. The national investment framework for transport in Ireland, NIFTI, started in 2017 long before this Government come in. It is important and appropriate is because the previous plan was done prior to the national planning framework. The reason this started in 2017 was to update our thinking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It will be formally approved but that does not stop the concept, or the thinking, behind it. The focus on the national planning framework in the meantime-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The timing should be analogous. It should be the same time. It depends on how quickly the interview is done-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister, Deputy McGrath, will have to decide on the timing of the national development plan, NDP. I cannot shoehorn it in. I am nervous of the implication that the national investment framework for transport in Ireland, NIFTI, provides a computerised perfect solution where x, y or z project should be "Yes" or "No" and it comes out as definitive. It does not. It is part of an ongoing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It will go back to Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It will happen within a number of weeks. I do not want us to constrain ourselves because, as I said, we want to get it right. That is our timeframe.