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- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: I move amend No. 10:
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: Deputy Troy has tabled an amendment or two on this as well, but it might be worth recording some background as to where we are coming from. I will summarise the two amendments we have put down on the regulation of rickshaws. No agency currently has the authority to regulate rickshaws. The NTA, which regulates small public service vehicles such as taxis or hackneys, cannot regulate them...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: There must be legislation somewhere in the vaults which covers non-mechanically propelled passenger vehicles. There must be historic legislation governing non-mechanically propelled passenger-carrying vehicles. Is there not an existing law governing this from way back?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: What governs the horse and trap, for example, in Killarney and elsewhere? There must be something. It is disappointing because there is a Revenue issue, a social issue, a safety issue, as Deputy O'Keeffe said, and then there is the whole regulation of it. It is dangerous. The Minister has seen it in the city at night himself. It is actually quite dangerous. Rickshaws are fun, but those...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: I am unsure of the purpose of the amendment. Perhaps the Deputy might elaborate further.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: I move amendment No. 41:In page 18, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “Regulation of Rickshaws 25. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by—(a) substituting the following for the definition of “public service vehicle”: “ ‘public service vehicle’ means a mechanically propelled, battery assisted, pedal propelled or...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: I move amendment No. 42:In page 18, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “Amendments to Taxi Regulation Act 2013 25. (1) The Taxi Regulation Act 2013, is amended in section 2 by inserting the following definitions:“(a) ‘PSR’ means public service rickshaw, and (b) ‘PSR regulations’ means regulations made under section 20.”.(2)...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: It is in the name of my colleague, Deputy Frank O'Rourke. Can I not move it?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2016 (Seanad): Committee Stage (30 Nov 2016)
John Lahart: Okay. I must abide by the rules.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: The next question is in the name of Deputy Murphy O’Mahony. She is unavoidably absent this afternoon but the Ceann Comhairle is satisfied that Deputy Kelleher can put the question in her stead.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: I have given both the Deputy and the Minister latitude.
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: 11. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, in October 2016, that 362 persons had been on the inpatient and day case waiting lists in Tallaght Hospital for more than 18 months. [38039/16]
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: Why, a month ago, had 362 people been on the inpatient and day case waiting list in Tallaght Hospital for more than 18 months? Will the Minister make a statement on that?
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: I am grateful for the Minister's reply. We are in real danger of getting lost in statistics, but I welcome the figures and particularly the announcement concerning the National Treatment Purchase Fund. The Minister will accept that there were 4,415 were on the inpatient day case list for Tallaght Hospital in October. He will also accept that it was an increase of 1,732 or a whopping almost...
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: They will help the Minister's constituents as well.
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: The additional recruitment is welcome news. The Minister's party was not a great champion of the NTPF but there appears to be an acceptance that it has a role, particularly in the short to medium term. Will the Minister comment on a statement made by Mr. Tony O'Brien at a meeting of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare yesterday? He spoke of a 5% to 6% increase in presentations to...
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: The Ceann Comhairle is satisfied that Deputy Kelleher can take Deputy Michael McGrath's Question No. 10 in his absence. The answer to it is same as that for Question No. 12.
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: They were grouped.
- Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: Yes, a supplementary question.
- Other Questions: Maternity Services (1 Dec 2016)
John Lahart: This is the Minister's final response.