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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Central Island Healthcare review has still not been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43574/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review of the traffic signs manual, which constitutes a ministerial direction to road authorities under section 95(16) of the Road Traffic Act 1961, will be completed; when he plans to publish the results of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43959/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Ms Hanlon for coming before the committee today. I have read her script carefully and it is clear she has set out an overall policy remit, not choosing a specific item here or there. I will try to keep my focus on policy. First, has the Department a policy on public transport fares to ensure the setting of fares is evidence-based and that there is an equality between rural and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I meant the travelling population from Clonmel to Waterford. The population of Clonmel, which is 17,140, is four times the population of Athenry but as the Chairman knows, nobody is using the train. That is not surprising because the train leaves at 10.38 a.m. and arrives at 11.29 a.m. Similarly, one would leave at 7.45 p.m. and would get home at 8.45 p.m. Given a very small town like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not talking about anybody setting a specific fare. Could the NTA decide tomorrow, as it does every year, to have outrageous fares for rural Ireland and outrageously smaller fares in urban Ireland because it does not like rural people? Will the Minister not intervene there? Has he no policy role whatsoever there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I get a clear yes or no answer to that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that include fare policy, the big policy? Is the answer to that yes or no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Change that law and we will make it proper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is no commuter service around Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the commuter service into Galway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have the service on my app but there are no commuter services. A commuter service means there are regular trains coming into the city at commuter times. There is no such commuter service. Two trains come into the city in the morning and two trains depart from the city in the evening. One goes to Dublin and one goes to Limerick. By chance people can get on those trains but they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The idea that the company is developing a commuter services if it happens to run two InterCity trains into the city-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Mr. Mullaney remember the roads needs assessment of many years ago? There was a big-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If one looks at that, it was proposed that the road from Athlone to Ballinasloe had the least amount of traffic and that it should be a single carriageway. Would it not be beautiful to travel out of Galway on the duel carriageway, onto the single carriageway and then back onto the duel? Over half of the national primary routes are already duelled. Is it within the policy remit of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is just as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to clarify what we are talking about. We are discussing national primary roads. I understand that the N11 is almost finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The M1 is done and a bit of the M2 has been done but one can go down the M1 and then go across. The M3 is great down to Virginia, when it runs into the bog. On the N4, one gets to Mullingar and then runs into the bog. That is also the case with the N5. The N6, N7, N8 and the N9-N10 have been done and the N11 is almost done. All that remains to be done are the Waterford to Cork and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Am I right in thinking that a national primary road is up to the number 50, be that M50 or N50?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are very few of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to raise an issue briefly. We must flag the fact that there needs to be a policy to the effect that services will be provided late in the evening. We will be commemorating the centenary of the First Dáil on 21 January 2019. The general election took place on 15 December 1918 and the results were not in until the end of the year, with Christmas in between, yet those involved...