Results 2,021-2,040 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Labour Party disagrees totally with the Government policy on breaking up the Dublin bus market. The Government is using this tactic to avoid the issue of adequate subvention. Our subvention rate is approximately 25% whereas the average in most European cities is 50%. The Government is failing utterly to tackle the basic issue of funding for public transport services. It is using this...
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister promised it six months ago.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Will it be ready by the end of the year?
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: In other words, the Minister does not know when it will be ready.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: I did not mention the unions, I said that the Government promised legislation six months ago that it has not yet delivered.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: When will we see the legislation?
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Will the bus licences be given out under the provisions of the 1932 Act? That means they will be given away for nothing.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: They are being given away for a matter of a few euro.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Government has been in power for nine years and has done nothing about this matter.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: I asked about the estimated cost of regulation.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister of State have a figure for the estimated cost of regulation?
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Has the Minister of State any idea of how much the regulatory system will cost?
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Why does the Government spend the money on buses instead? There are people standing in queues.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Government finish the existing ones first?
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister of State should tell that to people who sit in traffic for three hours a day.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Government has had nine years to sort it out.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Nine years and increasing times of sitting in traffic.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Government has failed to sort out public transport.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: That is not what the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, said.
- Public Transport. (2 Nov 2006)
Róisín Shortall: It is difficult for anybody who has travelled to another European city where there is integrated ticketing to understand how the Government could have made such a dog's dinner of the project. Proposals in this regard were first made in 1994 and the project was awarded to the Railway Procurement Agency, RPA, in 2000. Some â¬9.5 million has been spent since then and it seems to have gone...