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- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: That is terrible.
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: Once a Progressive Democrat, always a Progressive Democrat.
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not true.
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator should not spread fake news.
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: We are nearer. The Senator is wrong.
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. As I said earlier, I commend the motion to the House. I was amused by and smiled at my colleague and friend's, Senator McDowell's intervention and contribution. I would remind him to read the transcript of today's transport committee meeting where we had a robust engagement with the National Transport Authority, NTA, and Transport Infrastructure...
- Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I would be happy to give Senator Conway two and a half minutes but I cannot share time. The shift in behaviour is important. Government has strategically laid down this marker by the publication of the national development plan, Bus Connects, Connecting Ireland and the climate action plan tomorrow. I thank my colleagues for the debate tonight in the House. It was very positive. Much of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for being here. This is our third engagement this week with the NTA, which is most welcome. It is refreshing that we are being engaged with even if the orders are a bit reversed for Senator Horkan. Nonetheless, I welcome the engagement. The important point is that there is ambition on the part of TII, the NTA, ourselves and local authorities...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I do not wish to put the witnesses on the spot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: It was not my intention to put the witnesses on the spot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: Could the witnesses give us an update on the M28, if possible? If not, they might come back to me on it. As Ms Graham and Mr. Creegan will be aware, I am of the view that people want project visualisation. They want projects started. They want to see projects finished. Whether it is roads, light rail or buses, they want to see it done. At the risk of sounding contentious, many people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: -----the M28, and the timeline on that. That is my question to Mr. Walsh. To Ms Graham, in terms of BusConnects in Cork, I meant to ask at our meeting with her whether the livery would be still red and white. It is a parochial matter but it is distinctive in the context of Cork. The video the NTA had as part of its promotional piece had a red-and-white bus. I accept the NTA is buying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: Is TII looking at it being a five-year project or a ten-year project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Mr. Walsh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: What are the plans for the office in Cork?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: Will that be significant? It is important that we have-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is engaging in parish pump politics now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I will ask a simple question which has a complex answer. Do Mr. Walsh and Ms Graham think we will see the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy in our lifetime? We are committed to light rail and to a public transport system that is integrated. We recognise the complexities of public transport provision in the case of Cork. Yet the number of bus journeys, as we heard this week, is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Revised National Development Plan: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask the question because it goes back to my earlier remarks about project visualisation and delivery. People want to see that. The ambition is one that we all subscribe to and want to see achieved. There is a collective will. Have the NTA or TII made any submission to the Cork city or Cork county development plans currently being drawn up?