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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The purpose of the meeting is for the joint committee to discuss the draft transportation strategy for the greater Dublin area. It is the final draft for 2022 to 2042. In accordance with the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008, the National Transport Authority, NTA, recently forwarded a draft strategy to committee for consideration. I am very pleased to welcome, on behalf of the committee,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Ms Graham. I will now call on members. The order we have is that members who are present in the committee room will be called in the sequential order we have picked, non-members who are substituting for members are next and then other non-members. First is Deputy Matthews, who has ten minutes. However, I will be quite liberal with the timing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I suggest we go with initial slots of ten minutes. Members can then take it as a guarantee that we will come back to them. Rather than 20-minute slots, we will initially stick to ten to allow everyone the chance to come in at an early stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Deputy want Ms Graham and Mr. Creegan to deal with those questions now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That would probably be more productive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are members and non-members happy enough with that approach? It will keep things flowing. The next committee member is Deputy O'Rourke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I think Deputy O'Rourke would like a bit of interaction from our guests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that on the Fine Gael parliamentary party-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will now move to non-members and those substituting for members. Deputy Lahart is substituting for Deputy Cathal Crowe. He has ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is something we collectively look at as a committee. The timescale on this is very short. We have had a lot of groups looking to come in. We have looked for submissions from groups that we can bring up with the NTA. It is very difficult but it is something we will consider as a committee.