Results 3,621-3,640 of 26,228 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: That was not drawn down because Covid had subsided.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Due to Covid subsiding, people were able to travel.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: When does the Minister of State expect the scheme relating to the cost of fuel relating to the haulage sector to be in place?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Minister met with the road hauliers on this?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Is that with Mr. Brennan, his colleagues and others?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: There is a serious problem with driver licences. The Minister of State needs to go back to the RSA and find out what it is doing with the number of driver testers. This is a numbers game. The RSA does not have enough driver testers. It makes no sense. A derogation should have been given for the 30 staff who were there. In the current climate, a way should have been found to give a...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022) Kieran O'Donnell: Why was it not picked up that there would be additional costs when the Department did the original Estimate last year? Why is the Minister of State coming back now?
- 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.