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Proposed Legislation. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport the position on to the establishment of a Dublin transport authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13118/07]

Proposed Legislation. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: This is probably the final question time with the Minister for Transport in this Dáil; when we reached the final Question Time on transport in the previous Dáil, we were also promised a Dublin transport authority but it has not been established. The legislation has not been published and I do not know whether the Minister is even still promising to publish it before the end of this Dáil....

Proposed Legislation. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Is the Bill not yet ready to be published?

Proposed Legislation. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is talking gobbledegook. He has promised this for five years and is still only talking about feeding views into the legislation. His opportunities for legislation have passed. The incidence of chaos and gridlock in the city is increasing and special interests, who do not want a Dublin transportation authority but to maintain the status quo, have won out because the Government...

Proposed Legislation. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Every body and organisation involved in transport — there are dozens of them.

Proposed Legislation. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is supposed to be in charge of setting up the body to look after the public interest, but that simply has not happened.

Air Services. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the capacity of Dublin Airport to cope with increasing passenger numbers at the airport, particularly during the peak summer months over the coming two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13119/07]

Air Services. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I accept that the DAA is doing its best, in the difficult circumstances in which it finds itself, to maximise the use of what space is available at the airport. I welcome the move to slot co-ordination. However, on its own admission the DAA has accepted that it does not have any room for the expansion of services in Dublin Airport, despite the demand for increased services. The...

Air Services. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: It will not be possible to bring 4 million extra passengers into the airport——

Air Services. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: ——unless they are brought there by train.

Air Services. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: The Government knew that was going to happen. Why did it not make an early decision?

Air Services. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: In view of the point made by the Minister about the long lead-in time of aviation decisions before they appear on the ground, what measures have been taken to progress terminal three, which is the competing terminal?

Road Network. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: The reservation of some of this road runs through my constituency and it has had a road reservation for as long as I can remember. It was taken off the pitch entirely when the Fianna Fáil manifesto prior to 1997 stated it would never happen. After its re-election in 2002, it went back on the list for a feasibility study and this has been ongoing for five years. Is there any prospect of...

Road Network. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: What is the connection between the two? Are they being considered as alternative projects? In any post-construction assessment of the port tunnel, will value for money and the efficacy of the tunnel be taken into account, given that it went ahead after the decision was made to drop the eastern bypass before the 1997 election? Its efficacy was diminished following that decision.

Road Network. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Will there be a post-construction assessment of the tunnel?

Road Network. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister should stop waffling and answer the question.

Road Network. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: How long do we have to wait? We are waiting for years.

Light Rail Project. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: Word had gone out that the Minister had dropped the project.

Light Rail Project. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: I will drop in a leaflet to the Minister.

Light Rail Project. (3 Apr 2007)

Olivia Mitchell: It is out of the Minister's hands now.