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- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: I would prefer if we could deal with it today. Would it be fair to say that when the Government was doing the Estimates, Covid was still strong and it so happened that it subsided, which enabled this training to take place? Is that the reason?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: What I am saying is that the reason it was not picked up when the Government did the original Estimate is that it did not expect the training to be done because of Covid.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: It is roughly 5%. It is a lot of money but not in the overall context of the budget. I will return to the issue of HGV licences. There are a number of aspects to this. It involves the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of work permits. A person in South Africa would apply to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a work permit. Once this person...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: That is one element.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: It is more critical. The work permits need to go through but it is more important that once drivers land in Ireland, they are able to take up the job as quickly as possible. The work permit is processed while people are in their home country but they cannot get an exchange of licence unless they are physically present in Ireland. I am saying the process for exchanging licences was taking...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: We might come back to the Minister of State on that. It is critical. I will now turn to the regional airports programme. I understand the Minister will formally put something out to look for people to-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Plus we should extend the deadline date to 31 January.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Next, we must firm up on the issues paper. There will be proper detailed consultation, a firming up on the terms of reference and we will feed into that. The Minister of State and the Minister will appear before the committee on 7 December to discuss the general area of aviation. Can we take it that the work in this area would form major segment of the review of the national aviation...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: No, not feed into. I am worried about happens when we do a body of work, so let us consider the state of aviation in Ireland and the realities of it were put in context for me when we visited Holland. As many as 71 million passengers use the main airport of Holland, which is Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, and that country has a population of 17 million. By contrast, Ireland has a...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: As much as 40% of all FDI is in the mid-west, which is very much due to Shannon Airport.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: That is brilliant.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Minister of State to send the data on TII from last year to the committee. Perhaps she might give us the data on the increases over the last number of years, if she has that information. Next Tuesday, the committee will meet the representatives of TII so I ask that the information is quickly supplied to us and, ideally, before the weekend thus allowing the secretariat an...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to go back, Minister, and to bring clarity and a conclusion to the Estimate. Will you give me a breakdown of the €3.6 million for the Coast Guard? You said: A total of €3.6 million will be allocated to the Coast Guard, the bulk of which relates to contractual and cost increases. Additional safety training costs were also incurred.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Who paid for that? Why did DAA itself not pay for it?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Is this for the Coast Guard?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: How much did that come to? What is that for?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: For what are those charges backdated?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Just give me a breakdown of the €3.6 million. I just want to know the components of it.