Results 1-20 of 58 for cork speaker:Steven Matthews

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: With that mention of Cork, I call Deputy Gould.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ..., published by the committee last year. For the first session we are joined by officials from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and Cork City Council. In the second session we will engage with Alone, the Cork Simon Community, Dublin Town and the National One Parent Family Alliance. For this session we are joined in person by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: I thank Ms Hayes. There will be an opportunity to speak a little further on some of those issues based on the witnesses' statements. Finally, I invite Mr. Brian Geaney from Cork City Council to read his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Everyone is welcome back. I do not know if the witnesses had a chance to listen to the session we have just held with the Dublin Homeless Regional Executive, the Department and Cork City Council. We are now joined by Seán Moynihan, Gráinne Loughran and Frank Dillon from ALONE; Louise Bayliss, Carly Bailey and Marcella Stakem from the National One Parent Family Alliance; Dermot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...of rail transport, including freight, and will assist us in our climate challenge. That is a primary focus, though it has not been mentioned today except in Mr. Meade's opening statement. The Cork commuter project that is ongoing is transformative for rail transport in Cork. That five- and ten-minute service from Midleton, Cobh and Mallow will massively benefit the people of Cork....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: They can shake hands at the Cork-Limerick border with that rail line. It is fantastic to hear every Deputy come in here and talk about Navan lines, Cork extensions, Galway extensions, late-night services, more trains, better services and cheaper fares. We must remember the context of decades of underinvestment in public transport, which turned in 2020 with the programme for Government...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...schools are incomparable. The Minister of State mentioned the tendering process takes between eight and 12 months. Is there a way we can speed up public procurement on our projects? A school in Cork, Wicklow, Limerick or wherever will be a school with a 1,000-pupil capacity. It will be in or around that. Except for different sites with different topographical issues affecting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: I apologise for being late. I heard most of Deputy O'Rourke's contribution so I will not repeat his questions. I want to ask about the metropolitan area transport studies, like LSMATS or the Cork metropolitan area transport study. They are not statutory documents in the same way the greater Dublin area transport strategy is a statutory document. Would it be beneficial, or are there moves,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...to comply with it in terms of planning and other development, whereas if a document is non-statutory, it is something that may need to be considered but not necessarily adhered to. With regard to Cork and Limerick, which are growing and are two cities with great potential, Mr. Strachan may have mentioned the Cork metropolitan rail improvements that are going ahead there and there is great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...measure, and then to make sure they align with the objectives set out in the development plans. I want to ask about rail and, in particular, the remit the NTA has over regional rail services for Cork, Limerick, Galway and so on. Is it the same remit that the NTA has in those areas that it has in the greater Dublin area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...of rail systems. Mr. Strachan spoke about decarbonisation and I know the DART+ project is in various different phases. In terms of the electrification of lines from, say, Dublin to Cork or Dublin to Belfast, is that something the NTA is actively researching and looking at? There is a type of technology called discontinuous overhead electrification, where trains run for 60 km and are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (25 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...concerned with regard to how we are going to protect the east coast rail line from coastal flooding events into the future. We saw what happened in the south west this week and the events in east Cork where people lost their businesses and properties. It is only right to acknowledge the huge effort and work put in by local authorities and emergency services to assist those people and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...country. I do not suggest we go back there but we did do that once. There could be a Private Members' Bill to reintroduce Brehon law. Especially given the weekend's flooding we had in east Cork, I want to discuss the value of nature in preventing downstream flooding. It is a difficult concept for somebody who just sees the fact that if we pour 1 m or 2 m concrete walls along the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...which can electrify a 60 km section and the next section of 60 km is not electrified, but the train has charged during the first 60 km and runs the next 60 km off charge. If we take Dublin to Cork, to electrify that route we would only have to cover perhaps half of it with that conventional overhead electrification system. It is something we could look at. We are very low on...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...on housing. This year's housing budget of over €5 billion is the highest capital investment budget that is ever going to be seen in housing. The Land Development Agency, LDA, and the Department, are building houses out there in Cork, Galway, Dundrum and Limerick. Sinn Féin voted against the LDA and said that it did not want the LDA to be building houses. It voted against...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: ..., executive director of Simon Communities, and Mr. Jonathan Shinnors, regional manager for emergency accommodation at Mid-West Simon. We are joined online by Dr. Dermot Kavanagh, who is the CEO of Cork Simon. They are all very welcome. I thank them for taking time out of their busy days to assist the committee. I will read a quick note on privilege before we start. I remind members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...is for Ireland to be negative about it. With operators it is fine because they want more but we have to do what is best for Ireland and best for our people. On the Marino Point development in Cork, it used to be the old IFI route from Shelton down to Cork. What freight options is the port would be considering there? What can Marino Point offer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (2 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Mr. O'Connor might help us with that. One does not have to do that at the moment. When an electrician wires a house in Dublin, a guy in Cork can test and certify it. One does not need the-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...generate a lot more power than the old ones did. The payback time has improved significantly. I always refer back to the report by MaREI, the research centre for energy, climate, and marine in Cork. It talked about the payback time in a domestic setting, which is approximately seven years if 2.5 kW of generation power is put on the roof of a house. We can go up to 6 kW on a domestic...