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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What feedback has it got?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it important to the council that it happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: South Africa, for example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Crowley referred to recruiting on the Irish side. Can the industry recruit people to become drivers at present?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Even if foreign drivers are being brought in, that takes a period as well, given we are hearing that in respect of HGVs. Representatives of the RSA appeared before the committee last week. Does the council have no interaction with the RSA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I refer to licensing. Bus drivers would have to be licensed by the NTA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Crowley referring to engagements in respect of foreign driving licences?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I presume our guests deal with national car test, NCT, centres as well, so there is interaction in that regard. How long would it take to recruit someone to be able to drive a bus who has no experience but who has an ordinary driving licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that training system defined by the RSA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The tests to allow someone to become a bus driver.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is the uncertainty, in that case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long are drivers waiting at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Representatives of the RSA appeared before the committee last week in respect of general driving licences. The wait for them can be up to 15 weeks. For our guests' industry, it is slightly shorter than that but, with all the documentation, it can take 12 to 14 weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will follow up on this with the RSA. We have covered the skills shortages and the funding. Is there any other area our guests wish to raise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will our guests write to us specifically on the licensing system? As I understand it, a person has to apply and then agree a route with the NTA, which can take a considerable period. He or she is then required to get all the bus stops signed off by the local authority or whoever, which might be IDA Ireland or another body. How long is that typically taking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am familiar with that. My local authority in Limerick was exceptional in fast-tracking such cases but even then, they took time. Will our guests come up with an effective protocol based on what is happening elsewhere? If it is too complicated, it will not happen. I ask them to give timescales and come back with something with which we can approach the NTA. We would certainly like it to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Conway, Mr. Crowley and Mr. Lynch for coming before us. We ask them to write to us on those matters. We see our committee very much as one that is looking to get solutions and being proactive. We are in the process of writing to the RSA and we held off on that until our guests had appeared before us because we felt that elements of this meeting would cover its sector as well....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The purpose of this session is to discuss TII's report, Impact of National Road Speed Limit Reductions on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. I welcome Mr. Derek Brady, head of strategic and transport planning, and Ms Helen Hughes, director of professional services, TII. I thank the witnesses for their forbearance as the other session ran over; nonetheless it will be just as illuminating. I will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am sorry; what will that analysis entail?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Brady talking then about a kind of hierarchy in terms of speed limits going from motorways to national and regional roads?