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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 and 163 together. Tourism is contributing significantly to Ireland's economic recovery.  CSO overseas tourism figures for the first seven months of 2015 show that there were over 4.8 million overseas visits to Ireland, an increase of 12.2% on the same seven-month period of 2014. This growth in overseas visits has been accompanied by strong...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​The role of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national policy.  The development of business tourism is an operational matter for the Boards and management of Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland.  Fáilte Ireland is responsible for the development of the business tourism sector.  Tourism Ireland is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourist Accommodation (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​According to Fáilte Ireland's most recent accommodation occupancy statistics, for January to June 2015, hotel room occupancy in Dublin stood at 72%, whereas hotel occupancy in the rest of Ireland was 59%.  Occupancy rates in the same period for other forms of accommodation were mostly higher in Dublin than in the rest of the country, although when the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government's Capital Plan will be published shortly.  This will include a major programme of road and public transport investment for the coming years. It is imperative that we invest in our transport system to ensure that we can meet growing demand and tackle congestion to support economic growth. It is also important that in planning our investment...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Data (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​Local authorities  are responsible for mapping and collating available collision data on regional and local roads. Where analysis shows that engineering measures may assist in reducing the collision risk at a particular location then any local authority which is not fully self funding in terms of roads (under the new Local Property Tax regime) may apply to my Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​My Department's Statement of Strategy sets out the actions being taken or planned to deliver an integrated transport network across all transport modes. The strategy sets out performance indicators to measure the achievements of these actions. My Department and I also constantly monitor our national transport facilities to ensure that, given the resources available, they are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft Landings (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​As stated in the response to Parliamentary Question Ref No.617 of 20th January 2015 the figure 55,405 was based on information provided by Shannon Airport Authority.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Applications from airlines for munitions of war exemptions under Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order are received by my Department on a standard application form.   The Department requests that such applications are made at least 48 hours before the flight is due to take place. Airlines usually make applications weeks in advance of...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I listened with great interest to what Deputy Niall Collins had to say earlier. He walked in here and treated us to some kind of stream of consciousness where he went through all the different motions of confidence that he could put down in relation to the Government.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: He talked about all the different things that had unfolded regarding the economy and said that he could put down a motion on any of these, but the reality is that he did not.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason Deputy Niall Collins did not do this is-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that on every one of the claims he made in relation to the economy, two developments are apparent to most, although I acknowledge that so much more needs to be done.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: What is first apparent to most is that the very kind of recovery Fianna Fáil claimed was impossible and would never happen is now under way in our country.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The second point that is apparent to most is that-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: -----while much is still wrong, there are so many challenges that need to be fixed and there are so many social ills that we need to remedy, what we now have is an economy that is at least capable of doing that. What we now have is an economy that is delivering growth and creating jobs. Tens of thousands of jobs have been created, with over 125,000 jobs having been created since our...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: We could take lessons from her on the number of times she has come in here and sat beside her leader, and stood up and defended him. I respect her right to do so, but she has done so in an undying fashion and in a manner that did not recognise the reality that was apparent to the rest of the country and to this Dáil. We all accept that there are many challenges that have to be...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government has created the ability of the country to respond to the challenges that still exist while overcoming, due to the consent and support of the Irish people, the very challenges which Fianna Fáil created, the very wreck of the economy that this Government had to deal with when we came into office and the other challenges which all members of the Opposition said could never be...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I stand to express my confidence in the work of the Taoiseach and in the work of the Government. As I offer that confidence, I am reminded of a number of occasions on which I sat over here, in various seats on these benches, and heard the Opposition make a number of claims. The first claim was that the Government would not put in place a process to investigate the very serious events we are...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The second claim was that if that was put in place, it would not report before a general election. Deputy Mícheál Martin stood up here on a number of occasions, demanding that this report be published before any approaching general election.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: He stood up in the same spirit, asking if an interim report was made available, when it would be published. The cold reality of where we stand at the moment, for Deputy Martin, is that he made claim after claim and laid down pretence after pretence regarding what would be in this report. He claimed the report would not be published. He claimed it would vindicate the claims he had been...