Results 3,361-3,380 of 26,021 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State will appreciate that TII will come before us. We asked it to come before the committee immediately after the announcement was made. It has agreed to meet us and will come before the committee on Tuesday, 29 November. Based on the outcome, as a committee we may decide that we need further engagement with the Minister and Department. The Minister of State spoke about...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: There is protocol. I am conscious-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: They are here in their capacity as officials. I will not ask them to make their names known. If they would like to do so that is up to them, but it is not a requirement.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: They are from all sectors.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: I will show flexibility.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: I seek clarification on the national aviation policy review and an important point that Deputy Crowe made. While we welcome the review of the regional airports programme, we also want to feed into the national aviation policy review. When will it get under way?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Regarding the regional programme, when will the Government put a positions paper out for public consultation? What is the timescale for both?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State needs to give us dates. We know all of this.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Give us dates. Give us a timescale.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State needs to give us the timescale.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Before going to the next speaker, I welcome Mulcair Men's Shed here with my fellow-Limerick representative Councillor Michael Murphy from Castleconnell. Mulcair Men's Shed is from various areas of east Limerick. Deputy Carey is next and he has ten minutes. I will be flexible.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Will there be a public call for submissions for the position paper and when will that go out?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Will there be a public call on the website?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: The Department or the Minister of State through the Department should put a public call on the website to let people know that this position paper is under way. I also suggest 31 December is too soon a deadline. We are coming up to the Christmas period. I would have thought that should be 31 January. The Minister of State not talking about going out to public consultation until the first...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: She will be aware that is the key here. I am worried that 31 December is very tight.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: A month is very little time. A deadline of 31 January would be infinitely more manageable for the public than 31 December. A period from 15 December or 16 December, which is only a little over two weeks away, is too short.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Before we proceed, I welcome the group from Mulcair Men's Shed. It is a good group. It is the second group to have come in. Its headquarters are in Abington but it really covers all of east Limerick, right into the city. I welcome our visitors and hope they enjoy the proceedings. Many of us here, including me, Deputy Carey, Deputy Lowry and others, are from the mid-west. I will take...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State said there that the RSA-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: The point I am making is that the RSA came to the Minister of State in June 2022 to say that it needed 130 driver testers. It had 100 and within that 100 were more than 30 experienced driver testers who it let go only a month or two later. It made them reapply on the open market. It is madness. Did the RSA make a request to the Minister of State's Department to keep on these 30 plus...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: We are in a crisis.