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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sport and Recreational Development (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I was not aware we had the wonderful Minister of State in front of us. I want to acknowledge the kind words the Cathaoirleach said. The Minister of State is a great ambassador for politics. I think he first ran for election in November 1982 and he is now a junior Minister. I am delighted to have him here. I am bringing this issue of where we are going regarding athletics in County Cork...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sport and Recreational Development (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: We need a viable solution for the athletics crisis in County Cork at the moment. That solution can be provided by Bandon Athletic Club, which has done all the preparation work and all the ground work, including kerbing. The provision of an injection of cash to put the actual track in place would mean we would have a track this summer. Unfortunately, if we do not have that, more than 8,000...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Like my colleague Senator Joe O'Reilly, I compliment the wonderful work and distinguished career of Dick Dowling, who, as a councillor, Senator and TD, was a wonderful public representative from the mid-1970s into the 1980s and Garret Fitzgerald's era in politics. His death represents a significant loss to the Fine Gael family and to people in his home county of Kilkenny. I want to...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister for attending this welcome debate on agriculture. I can blame him for many things but I cannot blame him for the weather. The past seven months have been frightening. It has been appalling. Since last September, it has not stopped raining. In my part of the world, an inch and a half of rain fell last Monday week. To say it was depressing is an understatement. Where...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I also acknowledge the new Senator and wish him the best of luck. I hope he enjoys his experience in this wonderful House. We should have a debate with the Minister for Education about Irish oral examinations in the past few weeks. We have had a bizarre situation in which the profile for having oral examinations count as part of the leaving certificate has been changed. Traditionally,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Perhaps Mr. Kelly will inform us on the county development plan process and how things operate. Will he give us a timeline regarding when the next review of the county development plan will happen? Where are we with the county development plan process? I am aware it is an ongoing process. What are the timelines for a proposed review of this plan to take place? Perhaps the chief planner...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Is it a seven year plan?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: So the timelines for any change or review of the current development plan would happen in that kind of timeline. We are looking at probably four years away to some degree. Would that be fair?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Will that involve public consultation, submissions, going through the members twice, back up with the manager's report and everything else that happens in between?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: The council's problem is that a change in national policy would impact on that plan. The only option the council would have to change the plan then would be some kind of contravention of the county development plan. Would that be appropriate? Would that be how the council could do it if it needed to change the county development plan in the case of a national policy change? Would it be...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Yes, sorry.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Is there a history within Mayo County Council, or Galway County Council previously, of going through contraventions or variations of this nature in the witnesses' experience? Have they done this before? Is it a practice? Is it something they do on a yearly or maybe a two- or three-year basis?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Just so I can get my head straight on this, am I correct to say that the only way a variation would happen is if it is basically brought forward by the management? Is it a reserved function of the management when it comes to the actual county development plan process?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: And then passed by the council.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: If there were to be a change in national policy and then a change in the county development plan, the executive or management would have to initiate the proposal and send it to the members for agreement.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: I forgot the most important part. That sets out how a change would happen if there were to be one. Realistically, a change would happen only if there were a change in national policy. Is that a fair reflection on an argument like this?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Very good. If Mr. Kenny was to propose a reinstatement of the railway lines, would a planning permission process be required? What process must be gone through where infrastructure exists on a line?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Does the planning permission application go straight to An Bord Pleanála and not the local authority?

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: Mr. Kenny might explain the process.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: If planning permission was sought for a cycleway or greenway, would it involve a Part 8 process involving the members of the local authority? What planning process would the local authority use in this scenario?