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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase funding to the safe-routes-to-school programme to improve cycling infrastructure on the approach to schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46321/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Greenways Provision (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I have previously raised this matter with the Minister. There is considerable potential in this project. The Minister has put his finger on the issues. I and the Mayor of Navan, Councillor Eddie Fennessy, have met Meath County Council about this matter. It a Gordian knot of complexity because of how the greenway is linked with the navigation project. The environmental piece and the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Go-Ahead Ireland has a limited number of services, yet I hear about many of them from colleagues throughout the country, largely in the commuter belt area and Dublin, such as the 184, the 185, the 45A, the 238, the 270, the L52, the 115, the 120 - I could go on. I raised this with representatives of the NTA who appeared in committee yesterday. There are problems in the sector generally, but...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: In light of those fines and the recognised poor standard of service, there are questions to be asked as to why it is worse with Go-Ahead Ireland than it is with State providers and as to its terms and conditions of employment and so on. Was it a mistake to privatise those routes? Should they have been maintained within the State service? Plenty of private providers do an excellent job...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the efforts he is making to ensure the sustainability and viability of the taxi sector; if he will abandon or extend by five years the ten-year rule; if he will relax constraints preventing the transfer of plates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46549/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I want to ask the Minister about the efforts he is making to ensure the sustainability and viability of the taxi sector; if he will abandon or extend by five years the ten-year rule; if he will relax constraints preventing the transfer of plates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: There has been a welcome U-turn on the ten-year rule. We have discussed this on a number of occasions in the Chamber and in the committee. I believe there was intransigence on the part of the responsible authorities, which flew in the face of the obvious. I welcome that there has been a U-turn and that there is a consultation, which I hope will come to a successful conclusion. An...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I hope it is introduced but it is a U-turn. A number of months ago when I raised the issue with the Minister, he could not have been more categoric in his opposition to it, despite the fact that at the time taxi drivers right across the country were shouting from the rooftops about the impending crisis. The job of the Taxi Advisory Committee is to advise. The NTA told us yesterday that it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he intends to address poor service standards, including no-shows and poor punctuality, on many bus routes operated by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46550/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Bus Services (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: How does the Minister intend to address poor service standards, including no-shows and poor punctuality, on many bus routes operated by Go-Ahead Ireland? Will he make a statement on the matter?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reform the EV grant scheme to target grant support as persons that need it most; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Industry (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a scrappage scheme for the oldest and most polluting lorries to help hauliers transition to more environmentally friendly engines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the 20% fare reduction for public transport to commercial bus operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the short-hop zone to more train stations to help reduce the cost of public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46320/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: We have an energy and security crisis because of gross mismanagement by successive Governments, particularly in the last decade. Principally, therefore, the responsibility lies with the Fine Gael party, it having been a continuing feature of Governments in that period. There has been gross mismanagement. This is a matter of energy supply and demand. Those Governments rolled out the red...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: Would it not have been a legitimate approach in this year to treat late applications differently from those who applied before 29 April? We have a scenario where people who applied after 29 April, eligible and concessionary, have been accommodated ahead of those who applied before 29 April. I think that would have been a fair approach and I know there are specific eligibility criteria. Was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: It would not have been mid-stream.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: However, the closing date for applications was 29 April.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: However, the Minister has moved the goalposts by deciding the deadline was not 29 April, but rather 29 July. The Minister could have-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister could have treated applications received after 29 April as late applications.