Results 2,641-2,660 of 10,035 for speaker:Martin Cullen

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Rather than giving me a chance to answer, the Deputy started to rant the moment I spoke.

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Again, the two answers are clear. Like the Deputy, I urge Dublin City Council to fulfil its responsibility to put in place a traffic management plan. The Deputy pretends this responsibility lies elsewhere.

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Does the Deputy want an answer to her questions on the toll road and the M50?

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: If the Deputy does not want answers, there is no point in me attending the House for questions. She came to the House to play a political game on this issue but I will not allow her to get away with it.

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The stunts are taking place on the Opposition side of the House.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81 and 82 together. I hope to submit proposals to Government shortly regarding the ten-year transport investment framework. I will publish details of the framework once it has been approved by the Government. Responsibility for entering into contractual commitments for the major public transport projects under the framework will be a matter for the...

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I did not say that either, and the Deputy should not misquote me. I answered a specific question on who is in charge and gave an answer.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: All the Deputy's assertions, as usual, are wrong. Some day I might figure out what the Greens want. They do not want roads.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: They do not want private money in public transport. They do not want investment in this or that. It is an extraordinary policy.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I will look in glee to the distant future when Fine Gael and Labour might sit down and come up with some cohesive policies that they might operate together.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The reality is that no such decision——

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: ——will emerge on the investment over the next ten years that will prioritise roads over investment in public transport. That is not the way the plan will be implemented and I am happy to say so in the House this afternoon. I do not know from where the Deputy got that.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: There is a huge commitment in investment in public transport in the plan. His assertion that nothing is happening is nonsense. Only last week I signed the railway order for the upgrade of the electrification of the Kildare and Maynooth lines into Dublin.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Only last week we completed €175 million investment in the DART, the largest investment ever. Every station is now upgraded to take eight carriages. Passenger numbers per day on the DART are increased by thousands.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Does anybody want me to answer a question here this afternoon? It seems the Deputy has come in, like everybody else——

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: ——to just rant and rave. Investment is taking place as we speak. There has been significant investment, from a paltry sum of barely millions up to 1997——

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: ——to billions. More than the Deputy would ever imagine has been invested in public transport.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I agree with a number of points the Deputy made. We need to make a huge investment in public transport generally, but specifically in Dublin. I have not changed my view. When I came to conclusions having listened to everybody about what should be in the plan, I would not accept any attempt to alter the plan because it must be a fully integrated plan that will take Dublin into the future....

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: In reply to Deputy Ryan, "no" is the answer. I will not get——

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: First, as the Deputy knows, I have instructed the NRA and everybody else to do the complete feasibility study on the eastern by-pass and, therefore, I do not have a costing.