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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for the policy and overall funding in relation to Active Travel. The National Transport Authority (NTA), meanwhile, has responsibility for the allocation of funding to specific projects and oversight of their development, in cooperation with the relevant local authorities. Investing in sustainable mobility, which includes walking and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for the policy and overall funding in relation to Active Travel. The National Transport Authority (NTA), meanwhile, has responsibility for the allocation of funding to specific projects and oversight of their development, in cooperation with the relevant local authorities.  The Programme for Government committed to an investment of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally, including management of the Rural Transport Programme which operates under the TFI Local Link brand. In light of the NTA's...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 144 to 146, inclusive, together. As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding for public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for promoting the development of an accessible, integrated and sustainable public transport network. In addition, the NTA has statutory responsibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Small public service vehicles (SPSVs) are regulated in Ireland by the independent transport regulator, the National Transport Authority (NTA) under the provisions of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013.    However, I can inform the Deputy that Uber has been licensed by the NTA as a dispatch operator and has been operating as such in Ireland since 2014.  Since Uber is considered a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding for public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally. The NTA also has national responsibility for integrated local and rural transport, including management of Connecting Ireland and new town...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally and for the regulation of fares charged to passengers in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport, nor decisions on fares. It is the National Transport Authority (NTA) that has responsibility for the regulation of fares charged to passengers in respect of public transport services, provided under public service...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from Councils' own resources supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the Council. ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding for public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for promoting the development of an accessible, integrated and sustainable public transport network. In addition, the NTA has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the operation, management and upgrading of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Infrastructure Manager Multi-Annual Contract (IMMAC) provides the funding framework for the protection and renewal of our railway infrastructure, including the Dublin to Rosslare rail line. This is the third year of the current five-year IMMAC programme, as approved by Government in 2020, and over the five years of the programme in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (5 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: As announced by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on the 23rdMay, the Office for Government Procurement has published guidance for parties to public works contracts on establishing and using an 'Inflation/Supply Chain Delay Co-operation Framework Agreement'.  Clare County Council, which is the contracting authority for the Shannon Crossing, Killaloe Bypass and R494...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: This year's budget and last year's budget were designed together. Anyone listening to "Morning Ireland" this morning would have heard the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, set out that there are real challenges but there are ways we can fix it. There are three challenges. The first is the economic sustainability of the providers. This is why last year's budget was important. In it the Minister,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Sinn Féin in its documentation for budget 2021 committed to providing €167 million for childcare. The Minister's budget delivered €221 million, which is €60 million more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: This is what actually happened.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: This is what was committed. It is not just this. It is also supporting parents and recognising the real importance of getting early years care right, right down to the early weeks. We increased paid parental leave from two weeks to seven weeks. We need to go further but this is a real practical change. The increase in subsidy in the budget will not be done until September but it will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That is clear. The clever thing about it is that it was done in a way, by what the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth did in last year's budget, that every penny of that goes to the parents. That is the real practical improvement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It is true. The Government has a range of work to do, but the three key objectives central to Government are addressing the housing crisis, reforming healthcare and advancing the opportunity we will get from taking climate change from going to the max in what we need to do. In housing, there is not just the Housing for All strategy, which I believe engages on and commits to many of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Some of the affordable purchase schemes that have been introduced have some of the characteristics of what I understand Senator Moynihan was proposing with her Bill. Under the shared equity scheme, part of the equity can be bought back by the State. We need those schemes. We are starting. Progress on the delivery of cost-rental housing in Shanganagh is slower than I would like, but the...