Results 41-60 of 25,713 for speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), including light rail. The Luas Finglas project is part of four proposed Luas network extensions identified...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport.The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for Irish Rail. Therefore, I have referred the Deputy's question to Irish Rail for direct response to the Deputy. Please advise my private office if you do...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the regulation of fares charged to passengers in respect of public transport services provided under public service obligation (PSO) contracts....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) is leading the development and roll-out of strategic park and ride sites nation-wide through the Park and Ride Development Office (PRDO). The function of the PRDO is to enable and advance the delivery of strategic Park and Ride sites in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the operation and management of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: Integrated land use planning and transport planning in the five cities - Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford, is led through metropolitan area transport strategies which set out programmes of proposed transport investment in active travel, bus and rail for each city over a 20-year period. These strategies consider the whole functional area of the five cities, have a 20-year...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy may be aware, the National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure, including, in consultation with Iarnród Éireann, the DART+ programme. The DART+ programme will double the capacity and triple the electrification of the existing DART network. The DART+ programme comprises five different...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority and Exchequer funding is intended to supplement local authorities’ own resources. On 14th February I announced an Exchequer investment of €713 million in our regional and local roads across the State which represents an overall increase of over 8% in funding this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally and for the scheduling and timetabling of these services in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: There is a strong commitment under the Programme for Government to create a Transport Security Force under the NTA, which would operate and have similar powers to Airport Police and Customs Officers. Work in the my Department is ongoing around identifying the necessary legislative proposals to progress the Transport Security Force commitment, in conjunction with the NTA. The decisions...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport.The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for Irish Rail. Therefore, I have referred the Deputy's question to Irish Rail for direct response to the Deputy. Please advise my private office if you do...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Deputy may be aware, BusConnects is a transformative programme of investment in the bus system, providing better bus services across our cities. It is the largest investment programme in the bus system in the history of the State and is managed by the National Transport Authority (NTA). In 2023, the NTA carried out an extensive review and public consultation of the bus network in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy may be aware, the National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure, including BusConnects Dublin. The Government approved the Preliminary Business Case for BusConnects Dublin infrastructure investment in 2022, allowing the programme to enter the planning system. The NTA subsequently submitted the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: Transport is a very difficult sector to decarbonise and the development of the Climate Action Plan 2023 developed policies intended to put the sector on a pathway to achieve an emissions reduction of 50% by 2030, in a manner that is compliant with the sectoral emission ceilings for carbon budget periods. However, achieving the carbon budget 1 target of 54 Mt CO2eq will be extremely...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the regulation of fares charged to passengers in respect of public transport services provided under public service obligation (PSO) contracts....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (8 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: The Chicago Convention 1944 is the main international treaty governing the operation of international civil aviation. Article 35 of this convention provides that no civil aircraft may carry munitions of war in the sovereign territory of a state without that state’s permission. This provision is implemented in Irish law in the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and...