Results 2,421-2,440 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will ensure that the financial envelope for metro north is sufficient to allow the line to be kept underground through Ballymun and for an acceptable station design at DCU to ensure that the project does not negatively impact on local residents, local traffic movements and the local environment. [12973/07]

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister explain how he can propose a surface metro line through a large town such as Ballymun, which has been recently regenerated, without creating severance? When I asked the same question of the Minister at the Joint Committee on Transport he did not seem to be aware that a surface design would entail high protective walls on either side.

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: I am a bit more in touch than the Minister with the details of what is proposed, having discussed the matter with the RPA on a number of occasions. The Minister made a number of recent claims. He said the Red Cow roundabout coped well, but this issue is completely different. A new bridge was built at the Red Cow roundabout and grade separation took place, but in Ballymun the metro will be...

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: The RPA has shown diagrams of protective walls. Is the Minister not aware of that?

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Has the Minister seen the drawings?

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Nobody was in favour of it.

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Metro north will be a Luas.

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: With walls.

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is either badly briefed or is trying to mislead the House deliberately. Is he aware the RPA is and has been for some time showing diagrams of the on-surface design with high protective walls? Is he aware the RPA has cited a figure of between €150 million and €200 million as being the difference? Why did the RPA engage in highly elaborate public consultation with four...

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should answer the question instead of simply reading from a statement.

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: I asked whether the Minister has seen the diagrams. Has he done so?

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister know what he is talking about?

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Exactly.

Public Transport. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: That is the case. Has the Minister seen the diagrams? Does he know what he is talking about?

Road Safety. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in publishing a new road safety strategy; when he expects it to be published; and the items from the new road safety strategy he will incorporate into and have passed as part of the Roads Bill 2007. [12974/07]

Road Safety. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: It beggars belief that at a time when there is so much concern about road safety, we do not have a road safety strategy. The last strategy related to 2004-06 and effectively ran out last December. We have entered the second quarter of the year. Where is the road safety strategy? The last time the Minister was asked about this, he said he expected to receive the new strategy in March and...

Road Safety. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Everybody wants a road safety strategy.

Road Safety. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister told us that before and that we would have the strategy.

Road Safety. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: Is it not the case that there has been significant slippage at political level regarding road safety? I was not putting words in the Minister's mouth. He told us in February that he expected to get the road safety strategy in March, but we have not received that yet.

Road Safety. (3 Apr 2007)

Róisín Shortall: If the Minister was fully committed to doing that, he would ensure we had a current road safety strategy.