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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome all the participants. It is positive to see farmers and environmentalists around the same table. Not that long ago, we would had much more divergence, less dialogue and more bickering. There is some minor dispute, more about data than the global science of this. I understand the context of that. I am probably the only one on this side of the room who grew up in the environment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I just wanted to make that point and hear the comments. I am trying to figure what it will take – I know it involves compensation – to keep farmers onside rather than turning their back on it, walking away and leaving the place decimated. I probably went on a bit too long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I will very briefly speak about something that tags on to what has been said by both groups. There are two examples in County Clare where the policy has not followed the effort made by the farmers. The first was on the Burren designated programme, where farmers changed their practice, which hugely benefited biodiversity. Their approach to farming got rid of all the hazel, and allowed the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Nature Restoration Law and Land Use Review: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I have done.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nitrates Usage (22 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, to the House. It is an indication of his commitment to this issue, that he has taken time out to be with us. As the Minister is well aware, there is considerable concern in the dairy farming sector at the looming crisis that will be caused if the nitrates derogation cannot be maintained at its current level. On Monday, I had the opportunity, at...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Nitrates Usage (22 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I assure the Minister the farmers I know best want to work with him. They want to work in a sustainable and environmentally-friendly way. They too want to ensure our water courses are protected. It is in their interest. What they do not want to happen is to see themselves penalised for the activity of sectors outside of the agri-sector. We will have to find a better way to manage and...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for his ongoing briefing. From my perspective and that of my party, we have absolutely no problem with the provisions of the Bill. We would find ourselves in a potentially difficult situation without putting in place this temporary generating capacity. There was a lot of concern that we might be caught this winter. Thankfully,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I join with others in recognising International Women's Day and the tremendous changes that are now proposed through the introduction of a referendum to remove those comments that have no place in a modern Constitution. I hope that brings some sense of recognition that we as a society have changed significantly. While it is important that this happens, and I am sure it will pass without any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Taxed vehicles were the control.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Has MIBI attempted to do the corollary of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I ask that question only because in the ether there is a suggestion that people were always trying to ensure that the car was insured in terms of the impact of the penalty on the other side. That, for many people, was a priority. The tax might often lag. I am, therefore, surprised if that is the control MIBI has used. Could there in fact be a greater number not insured because of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: That is helpful. The witnesses are clearly here with a straightforward ask: progress the legislation. I agree with my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, that the committee should recommend to the Government that we move that as quickly as possible. May I broaden the question of detection a little? The dreaded speed vans sit on the side of the road and we all regularly encounter them, with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: There are other technologies. The tunnel has a speed restriction and is dynamically-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It surely does. Similarly, a section on the M7 south of Nenagh is also monitored. Will Mr. Fitzgerald speak about demographics and the age group that has been identified? I am concerned about a particular age cohort of people who succeeded in remaining on the road by getting successive provisional licences without ever having to do a test. That situation was changed a number of years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The MIBI's information is based on the accidents on which it pays out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: By their nature, elderly people are less likely to be involved in accidents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Which is the case across the piece, but there may be people in other categories.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: The MIBI has no access to those data. Perhaps this committee could try to capture them based on Garda surveillance or other data from the Garda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I was taken by the statement that a couple of countries had no uninsured cars. That is difficult to believe, but maybe it has to do with the systems in those countries. Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned Germany in this context. What knowledge can he share with us about how Germany does this business?