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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it being considered to be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be considered to be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will Mr. Duggan outline a timescale?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Will it be a month or two months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Great. I have some questions for the NTA. As we have gone over the ground previously, I will not ask why the NTA does not ensure all transport operators on licensed routes provide free travel. That is an issue the Government needs to address. How many policy initiatives or new directives has the NTA received from the Minister, Deputy Ross, since he became Minister? Has there been any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Ms Graham. If an operator gets a licence for a multi-stop route from Cork to Dublin and finds that the competition for the non-stop service is making it impossible for it to compete on a level playing pitch, can it unilaterally make a submission to the NTA under its licence to take out some or all of the stops and still hold the licence? My understanding is that the answer is in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I take Ms Graham's word; she knows her job. However, I have been informed that an operator can. There is a process that has to be followed, but it is a process that has a more or less automatic answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bus Éireann may claim that it is in a semi-viable situation because the NTA will not grant it a PSO for many of its Expressway routes which provide the social service of stopping in towns along the way. Therefore, it may apply to the NTA to get rid of all the uneconomic towns on the routes to save money. In doing so it would only be looking for the same kinds of licences granted to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Bus Éireann, for some peculiar reason, might be told tomorrow that all these routes where it is not optimising profitability but offering the optimum service have to be done on a profit basis. If it pulled out of those and applied for a PSO on all those routes, would the NTA give it to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have two further very short questions. I will be very quick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Based on what I have heard today and the previous day, I am fascinated to discover that Bus Éireann, which services the entire State - we will discount the Dublin part of it - of about 3.4 million people who do not have any alternative comprehensive service, gets about €40 million. It works out at about €12 for every man, woman and child in the population. Bus Átha...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I know, but I cannot make all the meetings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to make two final points. One of the most extraordinary NTA decisions is the fact that per kilometre for PSO services in rural areas is way higher than per kilometre for urban-based services. Those fares, at €20 return, are a huge disincentive when it could be €10 return to go the same distance for those lucky enough to live in an urban area. We have very few services...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Mí Aibreáin.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sure ní bheidh Rialtas ann ag an am sin.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Ceapaim féin go bhfuil ceist ardaithe ansin ag an bhfinné. Níor mhaith liom a rá cé chomh fada is atáimse ag plé le pobal na Gaeltachta. Ach an oiread leis an bpobal Béarla, seachas na díograiseoirí, ní maith liom go mbeadh an iomarca trua dóibh. Tá siad ag iarraidh rud éigin agus an bhealach is éasca é a...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As na daoine ar fad a thraenáil Gaelchultúr, cé mhéad atá ag leibhéil 3, 4, 5 agus 6?

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Tá ceist bheag fhorlíontach amháin agam. An féidir le duine an scrúdú a dhéanamh gan an cúrsa a dhéanamh? Mar shampla, má tá cainteoir dúchais ag iarraidh dul isteach sa Státseirbhís agus abair go raibh scrúdú agus teastas seachtrach i gceist, an bhféadfadh sé nó sí díreach an...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Sin ceist a chur mé ach is ceist don choiste é maidir leis an 10% nó 20% agus mar sin de. Is dócha gur freagraíodh é. Tá mise in amhras nuair atá an Státseirbhís ag rá go bhfostóidh muid daoine le Gaeilge maidir leis an gcaighdeán Gaeilge atá i gceist. Caithfimid a bheith gairmiúil faoi seo. Tá caighdeán...

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Gaeilge sa Státseirbhís (21 Feb 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an tUasal Ó Dónaill as an chur i láthair agus as ucht teacht os ár gcomhair. Is léir nach bhfuil alt 13 d'Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 ag fheidhmiú, mar in alt 13 cuirtear de dhualgas ar an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta a chinntiú go mbeidh dóthain...