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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: There is an existing asset.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her Department’s plans to develop a new school campus for a school (details supplied); and the extent of engagement she has had with stakeholders regarding the campus. [52513/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I also wish to send my solidarity to the school community in the north inner city of Dublin. The events of last Thursday, where three children and the teacher were so viciously attacked, have gone to the heart of so many people around the country. We all want to send our solidarity and our best wishes to everyone in that community who suffered so much as a consequence of these events. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I understand that a great deal of investment is going into schools in different areas. This school, however, has not benefited from much of this investment. As the Minister said, this school property is split into two campuses along the Dublin Road. It is on a very inappropriate site for a modern school building that has more than 500 pupils, and this figure is growing. The answer...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister. It is welcome this has happened. I and Deputy Clarke met with the school board and management a few months ago in regard to this issue. There is a real sense of having been ten years waiting for something to happen and so little progress having been made. If there is going to be a meeting with the patrons, that will be very welcome. I think the local authority has a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Does the Minister have a date for that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I think all of us have complained for many years about the planning situation the length and breadth of the country and the many difficulties in which people find themselves, whether they are in a rural area looking for planning for a one-off house or trying to build something to contribute to their community, to create employment or whatever else. They find that they have to jump through...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I nominate Deputy Steven Matthews.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. We have these Estimates every year and there is little we can do other than talk about where the money is going. We have no power to change things. Sometimes people looking in think we do but we do not. I would like to get a little more information regarding the reallocation of funds, particularly the public transport funding. I am someone...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: The other issue I want to talk to the Minister about is rural transport. While the Local Link service has been very successful in many areas and done a lot of great work and connected many people in rural Ireland, there are still gaps in it and there are still difficulties sometimes where it is oversubscribed and the bus is full when it gets to certain stops. There are also issues I see...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Will funding be made available for that?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: The issues in regard to road safety are paramount. That really needs to be where the focus has to happen, particularly in the context of the tragedies on the roads in the last 12 to 18 months. The difficulty is that the safest roads in the country are usually our motorways. It is more on primary and smaller country roads where most of the accidents happen or where there are difficulties....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: I want to come back in on one issue. The Minister mentioned bypasses and particularly some of our road networks that need work in that regard. I am conscious that the Minister was in County Sligo a number of months ago. We were disappointed on that day when he told us there would not be funding for the N17. I would like an update on that. The Minister mentioned that there would be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Are there issues, which is something we hear, in that when a project goes to the Department, one section has to be done before work can start on the next section and before it can go to the next stage? There is this delaying situation whereby Transport Infrastructure Ireland feels it is not getting the kind of flow that used to be there to get these projects moving faster resulting in delay...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: The issue I am trying to draw attention to is that when a decision is made to invest in a particular piece of infrastructure or particular road or bypass that will move ahead, instead of moving with the pace one would expect, it happens stage by stage. There is frustration there.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Is there no solution to that?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023)

Martin Kenny: Is work being done to change that?