Do members wish to raise other business?
Business of Joint Committee.
We must put the issue of tolling on the agenda at some stage.
That is an issue for the Department of Transport.
We should make a recommendation to that Department to deal with the issue. I feel very strongly about the matter. There is much concern about road development and some of the greatest car parking plazas are in the vicinity of those toll bridges.
What should the joint committee do now to advance the case made by the deputation it has just received?
I know the parks section of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is interested in this proposal. I imagine it will be a question of pursuing it at ministerial level.
Can I put it to the Chairman that this joint committee, including the members who have left, should give this project its unanimous backing?
Is that a formal proposal?
I second it.
Is that agreed? Agreed.
It would be important that the joint committee invites before it the people responsible for the development of parks to advance the case with them.
We can endeavour to do that.
I advise the members that there will be a joint meeting of the Joint Committee on European Affairs and the Joint Committee on Environment and Local Government on 15 June to examine EU documents pertaining to GM foods. The next ordinary meeting will be held on Wednesday, 22 June at 2.30 p.m., when the joint committee will hear from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, prior to his attendance at the EU Environment Council meeting to be held on 24 June.
The joint committee adjourned at 3.45 p.m. until 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 22 June 2005.