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Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (31 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The railway order application which I received in November last from the Railway Procurement Agency, RPA, for a Luas extension from Connolly Station to the Point Depot includes a proposed stop at Spencer Dock. A major focus of Transport 21 is the integration of services of various modes. While specific proposals have not yet been received from Iarnród Éireann on the location, in the...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (31 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Road Traffic Acts establish a range of offences that apply to all road users in the State irrespective of their nationality. Depending on the offences in respect of which an accusation is made, a person may be offered the option of the payment of a fixed charge or an on-the-spot fine. In the case of certain offences the payment of a fixed charge will result in the endorsement of penalty...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (31 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Section 41 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 and the Road Traffic Act (Section 41) Regulations 1995 set out the law relating to the detention of vehicles by the Garda. Subsection (1)(b) states that vehicles registered in the State can be detained if a policy of insurance is not in place for the vehicle. Subsection (1)(c) states that vehicles registered in the State can be detained where motor tax...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (31 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Labour Relations Commission brokered the registered agreement, referred to by the Deputy, which ended the recent Irish Ferries dispute. I have no function in regard to the implementation of agreements entered into under the auspices of the Labour Relations Commission.

Written Answers — Local Authority Permits: Local Authority Permits (31 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Irish Road Haulage Association has expressed dissatisfaction concerning the existing arrangements for the issue of special permits, particularly in connection with journeys conducted on a regular basis involving wide and long loads. The function is assigned to local authorities because they are best placed to assess the suitability of the roads in their functional areas for use by...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: That was never said by me and the Deputy knows that. He is making it up as he goes along.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: He is making it all up.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The scaremongering bloody Labour Party. This is typical.

Order of Business. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: There has not.

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The national roads improvement programme, in line with the national development plan and, more recently, Transport 21, provides for the procurement and construction of a number of major national road projects as toll public-private partnership projects. The current position is that three projects — the second West Link bridge, the Dundalk western bypass and the Kilcock-Kinnegad section of...

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: A fair assessment would say that my Department received a major contribution from the Exchequer in Transport 21 and we have laid out €34.4 billion. In a perfect world with no competing demands from other Departments, one might be able to take all the State's resources and put them into infrastructure, but that is not the case. We have outlined a major investment programme in a range of...

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I am telling the Deputy what the research and facts indicate. The figures on the Dundalk bypass are way beyond expectation. They are running at approximately 26,500 cars per day on the Drogheda and Dundalk bypass. I do not have the final Kilcock-Kinnegad figures yet but they are running at 16,000 to 18,000 per day, exactly the level expected.

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: There are no such figures. Much notional debate occurs around these issues. People speculate and make comments but in fact — we should all deal with facts — the volume of traffic using the Kilcock-Kinnegad road is exactly in line with expectations. It is untrue to say that where tolls are in operation, they are not having an impact on the local communities by taking traffic out of those...

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: If Ireland was the only country on the planet involved in tolling, then the Deputy might have an argument. Every modern economy uses tolls. It is a legitimate——

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: It is a legitimate part of the contribution of developing a range of infrastructure here, as it has been in every country throughout the world.

Road Network. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: We should not pretend we are doing something different to that which happens elsewhere. That is simply not true.

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Attorney General has provided advice on the exercise of the powers currently available to the Garda to stop vehicles both on a general basis and in particular in connection with the enforcement of drink driving laws. Members of the Garda Síochána may stop any vehicle using a public road for the purpose of detecting offences under the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2004. Those Acts provide...

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I agree with most of what the Deputy said. I am interested in why she has criticised me so heavily for amplifying the powers that the Garda had for random breath testing before the Commissioner spoke last week. I said all of that before the committee, yet the Deputy laughed at me, claiming it was nonsense. The Attorney General has amplified the Garda powers and has made that perfectly clear....

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: It does.

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy knows that this is the issue that is constantly being challenged in the courts.