Results 21,041-21,060 of 26,162 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Ms Graham happy to allow further speakers in? Does Deputy Murphy wish to speak?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Senator Seery Kearney wish for an interaction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the way we will do it. Deputy Catherine Murphy has ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Deputy. I will go back to a member of the committee, Senator Buttimer, and then to Deputy Leddin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Go ahead, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Senator. I suggest the officials, in this first round, go back to the questions put by members and other Oireachtas colleagues. We started with Deputy Matthews, then went to Deputy O'Rourke. Thereafter, I think we went to Deputy Lahart, Senator Seery Kearney, Deputies Catherine Murphy and Leddin and Senator Buttimer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will come in on that point. The metro south west group has sent us a great deal of documentation and has made a suggestion, that the witnesses are probably fully aware of, that it would like to see included in the draft strategy. Its correspondence reads: Metro South West Group would request that the text beneath goes into section 12.3 dealing with light rail as this is where the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is LRT2?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Six years is a long time away. Can the NTA carry out that review earlier?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The NTA will carry out the feasibility study that the group is requesting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Can it be done any earlier?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: But the NTA is committed to meeting the request of the metro south west group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: In layman's terms, why did the NTA not choose a light rail system in that area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Within the latest draft, the NTA is giving a commitment that this review will take place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I apologise to Senator Seery Kearney. I did not wish to take up her time. It was just on that specific issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Kearney-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: My apologies. I am bad with names.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I intervened with questions. I will allow the witnesses to answer the Senator's questions, and then we will go around to other members. I just wanted to speak because I had not spoken myself.