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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Electric vehicles are the most prominent transport mitigation measure in the 2021 climate action plan. There is an ambitious target of 945,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. This is challenging but indicates the scale of the transformation needed. I am acutely aware that the cost of electric vehicles remains an issue for many consumers and that supply chain issues globally have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will begin with the wider point. The supports did evolve, with regard to very expensive cars being excluded from the grant scheme. It will continue to evolve. As electric vehicles become much more commonplace we will need to look at targeted supports, consider the issue of social justice in how we do it and support the likes of the second-hand market. We are looking at measures to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is complicated and we must be careful not to create further inequality if the cars coming in are only for the very wealthy, for example. There is a wider global supply chain issue and the car supply process is currently broken for a variety of reasons, including the war in Ukraine and other factors. We are not seeing the usual delivery of either electric or other vehicles. In that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Tolls (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Under the Roads Acts, 1993 to 2015, the operation and management of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, in conjunction with the local authorities concerned and, therefore, matters relating to the day-to-day operations regarding national roads, including toll roads and the establishment of a system of tolls, are within the remit of TII. More...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Tolls (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and I have spent much time in recent months trying to consider various measures to support or help the haulage sector. We will continue to do so at a difficult time. Included in this we examined whether we could remove the restrictions on the tunnel. The Deputy is correct that trucks do not pay tolls but we considered whether we could remove the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Tolls (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Every tunnel and road has different characteristics but this tunnel has its own characteristics. We lead all the trucks around the M50-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Tolls (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: No. In every way, we must look to improve air quality and traffic causes some of the pollutants that affect lung health. The effect tends to be more localised. This tunnel, access to the port and management of that port have certain characteristics that are required to be managed in an organised way. There are deep tunnels all over the world and each has different characteristics as to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Tolls (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will quite happily provide further background from my Department.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 91 and 126 together. As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and Exchequer funding regarding the national roads programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with TII under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2015, and in line with the national development plan, NDP, the planning, design, improvement and upgrading of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I am aware. I said that I looked, in real detail, at the project. There is significant housing development planned. There is controversy in that regard not just in respect of the housing development, but also in respect of retail developments in that area. We have to be careful here because it was the subject of a court decision. The national Planning Regulator has been very specific in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is not that far away from it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I know that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will go back to the point about not creating false promises. There is an issue in terms of the fact that we have a roads programme that is the length of one's arm and beyond, and a budget which, this decade, will not be able to deliver a fraction of it. That is before we look at the examples of these additional roads projects which are not at as advanced or developed stages as others....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I am.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is why I was concerned. I apologised at the time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is that a reply was sent.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will have to go back and double-check that. I will continue to engage and, as I said, to look at those safety issues and look to see are there ways in which we can address some of them without necessarily having the full road scheme, which I do not believe would be able to get the budget within the constraints that I see ahead of us for the next ten years. Yes, we do want to address those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As I said, we are very clear that we are not saying that road will never proceed. However, it does have to be within an overall budget and Transport Infrastructure Ireland will have to assess how it will manage and deliver projects, so it has not completely gone to waste and it could well be used. My understanding of how this process works is that the CPO only comes in at the very later...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: In line with the whole-of-government approach, my Department and the National Transport Authority have been working on practical and meaningful responses to the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis. From the beginning of the crisis, newly-arrived Ukrainians have been able to avail of free travel from their port of entry to the end destination on any public service obligation or Local Link service....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (26 Apr 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is a huge challenge and it was always going to be such for Ireland and every other European country. We are not alone. We have taken in some 25,000 people. The State we heard today is housing 16,000 to 17,000 people. There are real challenges in that because there are stages. Someone might arrive at Dublin Airport, Rosslare Port or another port and stay in Citywest for a period, then...