Results 10,441-10,460 of 23,579 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is a ghost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I never said the TII appealed any planning decision. I said it objected to planning applications and I have information that this is a fact, in the shape of a letter from the TII to Clare County Council stating it was considered premature to grant planning permission for Mr. McDonagh's proposed development near the Ennis bypass. The TII also reminded the council of its own plan for services...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Is that not factually incorrect?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Is Mr. Nolan telling me that, on the file, in no way does he reference his plans for his own service station?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am asking again because I do not want to ever wrong anybody. Is it on the file or not that Mr. Nolan states his own plans to build a service station?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: So what I said is correct. The only disagreement we have is that Mr. Nolan is calling the letter an observation and I call it an objection. That is the only difference between us. I do not want it to appear that I said anything wrong here because I did not. What I have said is factually correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: And TII was worried about its own plans for its own service station.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, to the question of funding - inadequate funding for our roads.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: The road is the R556 regional road from Tralee to Ballyduff. The section of road from Ballinclogher Cross to Abbeydorney is built on a bog rampart, which has number of undulations. Minor works have been carried out over the past five years, most recently in 2014, to the worst section of the road. A full reconstruction is required to adequately improve the poor riding quality and thus...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is that section of road but there are others that I highlighted that are and issues such as safety issues as I highlighted in Glenflesk and at Poulgorm, the Ring of Kerry road and the Macroom bypass, they are all issues for TII.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Also, the very serious situation where the R569 meets the N22 at Poulgorm cross.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes. I appreciate what Mr. Maher said. TII is trying to reduce the number of lights. If it takes them down somewhere else, it can give them to us there because that would save an awful lot of accidents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Just to tell how serious it is there - all jokes aside - coming from Cork or going from Killarney at night time, because the junction is not lit, a great number of local people actually pass their own crossroads. They come upon the latter and have gone by before they realise it. An amount of accidents have happened there. Senior executive engineers and excellent people working for Kerry...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: He would be travelling that road an awful lot as well to visit his relations. He knows exactly what I am talking about and could back up the arguments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yes, and we have welcomed that funding very much. We are like the boy going up with the empty bowl for more porridge. The reason we are putting in our say for more funding now is because we appreciate what is coming this year. We will spend it well and will not waste it. It will be put to good use. But we will need sustained funding over next year and the year after to bring us up to an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is not all negative by any means. I want to put on record my thanks and gratitude to TII and the NRA for every euro that has come to Kerry in the past. We appreciate it very much but it is my job to fight for more and that is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: We might advance that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will put on record that excellent progress has been made so far. The land has been purchased, the contract was awarded and the fencing has been erected. The carriageway is there and the work just needs to be done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Michael Healy-Rae: Whatever is done, do not let snails or anything hold us up. We do not want any hold-ups. All we want to do is drive on and put the road in place.