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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
986. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sports capital grant in respect of a club (details supplied) in County Kerry. [23071/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
985. Deputy Michael P. Kitt asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allow a postal service for learner driver permits and driving licences for emigrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23000/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
984. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in processing a driving licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22964/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
983. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to implement wage cuts for employees in Irish Rail; if he has held meetings with the CEO of Irish Rail to discuss this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22824/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
982. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to meet senior management from Irish Rail to discuss the upgrade of rolling stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22814/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
981. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the plans in respect of the DART interconnector; if funding has been secured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22799/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
980. Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the use of old train track rails by the fishing industry; if his attention has been drawn to a recent shortage of same; the efforts being made to ensure that these assets are redeployed to the fisheries sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22704/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
979. Deputy Ciara Conway asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine a case (details supplied); if his Department can assist or provide guidance in having this vessel registered a 345 kW on the on the Irish registry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22671/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
978. Deputy Damien English asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the establishment of a new category of SPSV licence for situations where non-standard taxi, hackney and limousine services are to be provided, such as the introduction of SPSV licence for tuk-tuk style vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22619/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
977. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria for the appointment of members to the board of a given transport co-ordination unit; the measures he has taken to ensure fair and transparent representation on each board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22613/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
976. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 13 May 2014, the outstanding documentation his Department is waiting for from club (details supplied) and from South Dublin County Council. [22534/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
975. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria required for rickshaws to operate in Dublin city centre; and the licence and insurance requirements needed. [22530/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
974. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the scholar rate to be available via Leap card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22510/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
973. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that his Department is committed to making available in each year between now and 2017 for the purposes of constructing the Athy southern distributor road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22498/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
972. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will implement Conradh na Gaeilge's recommendations regarding road signs on which the text in Irish is as prominent and large as that in English on a trial basis. [22447/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
971. Deputy Helen McEntee asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department received proposals from Meath County Council over the past ten years to construct a bridge over the River Blackwater in Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22386/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
970. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the implications on the Nifti bus service of the efforts of the National Transport Authority to bring this service under the remit of the Flexibus service in Meath. [22370/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
969. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sports capital grant in respect of a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22336/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
968. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way a person using a commercial vehicle for private use, which is taxed as private, can avoid paying commercial rates when using toll bridges. [22333/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
967. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Dublin Bus No. 14 bus route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22285/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
966. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an appointment system will be implemented permanently at the National Driver Licence Service centres; or if this system is in place temporarily until the high demand currently being experienced ceases; the action that is being taken to address this high demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22276/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
965. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a sports capital grant application in respect of a club (details supplied) in County Clare is valid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22215/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
964. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the arrangements for the motor taxation payable by lorries and HGVs here in view of the fact that it is much higher here than in Northern Ireland and also when lorries from here travel north they have to pay €10 per day but the same does not happen in reverse which is a commercial disadvantage to truckers operating here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22205/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
963. Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown on a county basis of the number of inspections by Road Safety Authority officials on articulated trucks and all other commercial vehicles; the number of repeat inspections in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22154/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
962. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans his Department has for investment in a Coast Guard station in County Mayo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22152/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
961. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received an application for funding from Mayo County Council for road improvement works at a designated cycle track at Sheffrey, Louisburgh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22151/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
960. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason County Mayo does not have a facility for the renewing of taxi plates in view of the fact that there are 323 taxi plates renewed in the county each year and that the Road Safety Authority is located in the county. [22150/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
959. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make it compulsory by law for all drivers of motorcycles to wear high-visibility jackets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22136/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
958. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a decision has been made for funding for a club (details supplied) in County Kerry under the sports capital grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22126/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
957. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on the way the current industrial relations difficulties at Irish Rail can be resolved. [23529/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
956. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position and status of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Act 2001. [23003/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
720. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Health if he will provide transport to and from a day service in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22166/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
709. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the mobility allowance and mobility transport allowance; the scheme that has been put in place since the removal of those allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22642/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
707. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health if financial assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry to assist with the costs of transport to a Health Service Executive day centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22451/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
658. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles allocated to the Loughrea district on 31 March 2012 and on 31 March 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22391/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
284. Deputy Dan Neville asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will qualify for the school bus service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23068/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
221. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Bus Éireann requires buses operated by its contractors to be tested by a private company at the expense of Bus Éireann even though these buses have already passed the test in the commercial vehicle test centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22407/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
218. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a year-on-year in tabular form the categories for indirect costs charges to his Department by Bus Éireann as tabulated in FGS Report 2009, page 9, table 1.4, for each year from 1997, being ten years prior to the EU Commission's opening statement in state aid investigation C31/07, as published in the Official Journal on 15 September 2007; if he will ask Bus Éireann to prepare a balance sheet for each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22330/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
217. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that Bus Éireann made an internal calculation that it saved his Department €30 million due to efficiencies of Bus Éireann in the provision of the service and Bus Éireann claimed the majority of this €30 million was spent on new services provided by Bus Éireann over the period specified, if he will provide in a year-on-year tabular form the alleged savings made in each category of charge as set out in the format as in the annual statement of account for direct costs and also the categories for indirect costs charges as tabulated in FGS report 2009, page 9, table 1.4, for each year that Bus Éireann claimed the total savings of €30 million over the said years as claimed by Bus Éireann to the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications on 7 May 2014 in respect of school transport; if he will provide in tabular form the €30 million in extra services provided over the same said period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22329/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
216. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the total number of routes, the total number of children carried and the cost per child carried for primary and post-primary schools; the total revenue of Bus Éireann and the percentage increase or decrease year on year from 2004 to date under the school transport scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22327/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2014
209. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus pass to a school will be restored in the case of a child (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22263/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
278. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of defibrillators located in Government offices and buildings under the remit of his Department and under his aegis throughout the country; if these are available in emergency cases outside of office hours to the community in the locations where they are based; the number and cost of same; if he will consider putting some arrangement in place whereby these defibrillators can be located where the public can get access to them outside of office hours in the interest of health and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22383/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
277. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which further expansion and development of the tourism sector is envisaged with particular reference to marketing of new products or specific promotion of particular locations on global markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22096/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
276. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the tourism sector has contributed to economic recovery in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22095/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
275. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that all areas throughout the regions have adequate access to the tourism market with particular reference to promotion and capitalisation on various locations of historical and scenic content; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22094/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
274. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the hotel and catering sector continues to meet the requirements of hotel and catering accommodation in all areas throughout the country; if any particular deficiencies have been identified in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22093/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
273. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which deficiencies in the availability of motorway-standard regional roads have been identified, with particular reference to the economic needs of regions to be met by way of adequate road networks of international standard; the areas under consideration in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22092/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
272. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects the tourism sector to develop in this country over the next three years; the most likely areas of growth identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22091/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
271. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which his Department has calculated the economic potential of hosting or co-hosting various sporting events in this jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22090/14]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2014
270. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which his Department continues to encourage the use of integrated transport systems with particular reference to the use of a single ticket; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22089/14]