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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (30 Apr 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...military to transport its personnel to and from locations outside of the US are required to seek an exemption in accordance with the 1973 and 1989 orders when transiting through Irish airspace or landing at an Irish airport where the personal issued weapons of the troops, generally consisting of rifles and pistols, are being carried on board as these are otherwise prohibited. The 1973...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...National Driver Licence Service, and my Department have no plans to change the licensing rules regarding tractors. Category W will continue to be the licence category that covers work vehicles and land tractors. The definition of “work vehicle” means a vehicle (other than a land tractor) which has a maximum design speed not exceeding 40 kilometres per hour and which is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and my Department have no plans to change the licensing rules regarding tractors. Category W will continue to be the licence category that covers work vehicles and land tractors. The definition of “work vehicle” means a vehicle (other than a land tractor) which has a maximum design speed not exceeding 40 kilometres per hour and which is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (20 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) or my Department have not changed the licensing rules regarding tractors. Category W will continue to be the licence category that covers work vehicles and land tractors. The definition of “work vehicle” means a vehicle (other than a land tractor) which has a maximum design speed not exceeding 40 kilometres per hour and which is constructed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...of former peat extraction sites. It has to be explicitly voluntary when it comes to landowners. That is why the Government's position is that the State itself will lead on rewetting, using State lands to shoulder the majority of the burden associated with this ambition. Farmers can have confidence that no changes will be forced on them and that they can continue to produce the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Policy (29 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...Throughout the debate on these proposals, a key ambition for the Government has been to ensure that they achieve their key nature restoration objectives but allow farmers to continue to farm their land in a sustainable way. The current proposals differ in a number of important respects from those that were originally presented by the Commission and are more balanced and practical. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (15 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...Parliamentary Questions 279 and 280 of 11 September 2023, the 1973 and 1989 Orders provide for the inspection of a civil aircraft, only whenever it appears that a flight would be operating from Ireland in contravention of them. Insofar as it can be determined, there is no record of an inspection of a civil aircraft having been carried out pursuant to these orders. However, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Planning Issues (24 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: I did not make any submission to Dublin City Council during the City Development Plan process calling for rezoning of land at Dublin Port, including land currently used for the storage of imported cars.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (24 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...(IMO) in 2000 and extends the requirements which are in place for dealing with oil pollution incidents to include incidents involving hazardous and noxious substances. Ratification by Ireland of the OPRC-HNS Protocol is included within a comprehensive 10-year maritime legislative programme, in place within my Department, which takes account of our legislative obligations at domestic,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (17 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Senator for tabling this Commencement matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Finance. The residential zoned land tax, RZLT, is a new tax introduced in the Finance Act 2021 which seeks to increase housing supply by encouraging the building on lands that are suitably zoned and appropriately serviced. It aims to bring forward for housing land that has benefited...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Tax Code (17 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...to prompt the development of housing. While the demand for housing is greatest in urban centres, there is also housing need in many other parts of the country, as we are all aware. The zoning of land by local authorities reflects the housing need in an area and only residentially zoned and serviced land will be subject to this tax. I reassure the Senator of the Government's continued...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety (17 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...has become an offence everywhere. Previously, it only applied to public places. The new provision extends the right of An Garda Síochána to seize a vehicle being driven in a dangerous manner on private lands, for example. Under section 5(p), An Garda Síóchána also has increased powers of seizure where a garda reasonably believes that a vehicle has been or is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety (17 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...were commenced in July. As a result, dangerous driving is now an offence everywhere. This change empowers a member of an Garda Síochána to seize a vehicle being driven dangerously, even on private land. There are also increased powers of seizure where a member reasonably believes that a vehicle is being or is likely to be driven in a manner that is dangerous. This includes...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (26 Sep 2023)

Jack Chambers: The application for an exemption to permit the carriage of munitions of war on the flight that landed at Shannon Airport on Wednesday, 6 September, was first received by my Department on Saturday, 2 September at approximately 1600hrs, then revised and resubmitted on Monday, 4 September at approximately 0500hrs. Such revisions are commonplace and arise with changes to times, aircraft, or other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Jack Chambers: I thank the committee for its invitation to discuss our decarbonisation strategy for the shipping and aviation sectors. Both are vital to our island’s international connectivity and competitiveness but their decarbonisation is highly complex and both are rightly recognised as hard-to-abate sectors. Opportunities for significant emissions abatement will ultimately rely on alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (20 Jun 2023)

Jack Chambers: The Deputy refers to Dublin Port Company's Franchise Policy, published in May 2014, and lands described in Appendix 1 of that document. The Deputy may be aware, that since 2014 the Company undertook a review of their master plan in 2018. This is publicly available and sets out the Company's options for each parcel of land within the Dublin Port Estate. In preparation for Brexit some...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...from the sports capital programme. I will set out the facts on this, as much has been said publicly that sometimes polarises communities. It is clear that any measures will be introduced with landowners in mind and in consultation with them. That will be considered in the context of an overall national restoration plan. It is important to flag again that such measures will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Climate Change Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...aims to fulfil this commitment. This significant EU legislation will have an impact on all areas of society, and not just farming. It will introduce restoration targets across a wide range of land uses throughout rural and urban environments, including lands in agricultural use, forestry and the marine. There will be legally binding restoration targets for a broad suite of marine and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Airport Authority (24 May 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...being undertaken by ANCA in relation to the impact of aircraft noise on the communities around Dublin Airport as this is a wholly independent process. While I am aware that flights depart and land at Dublin Airport from 0500 on the original south runway, daa has advised my department that there are currently no departures from the new north runway before 0900 except where the south runway...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (20 Apr 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...website, relate to passenger numbers arriving through the State and Regional Airports. The statistics do not differentiate between private aircraft and/or commercial aircraft. Private aircraft landing at privately owned airports are a commercial matter for those airports. daa has statutory responsibility to operate, manage and develop Dublin and Cork Airports including matters...