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Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: Someone may stagger out of a pub——

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: If I walked out of a pub, the garda might form that reasonable suspicion but he would be wrong because I do not drink. We cannot have an arbitrary basis——

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is asking why we need legislation when she rightly identifies that the Garda has substantial powers to set up random checkpoints and has a range of options in how to breath-test someone.

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I have been on to the Garda about this issue.

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I am not responsible for the operational matters of the Garda and the Deputy knows that. There are cases where we have had to increase the number of gardaí. It has been pointed out that there are many forms of alcohol that do not emit a smell of alcohol, while some forms of alcohol consumed are more obvious than others. A garda can immediately form an opinion because he or she can smell the...

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy knows that is not the case.

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: She does.

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I thank the Deputy for the question because it was I who called a meeting with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and all of the senior members of the Garda. I spent hours discussing this issue with the Garda on precisely the points the Deputy has raised. I wanted to establish from the Garda the actual training and methodology it uses in doing this. Much of the discussion...

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I am not the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. I am the Minister for Transport. The Deputy asked me whether I had done anything about it. I have confirmed to her in a very open manner that I called a meeting and met not just the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform but all of the senior gardaí from the Commissioner to the deputy and assistant commissioners. It was the...

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: Of all the people accused of doing nothing, I find myself in a bizarre position. My problem is that I am always being accused of doing something. Most of the time the Deputy does not like what I do, but she does not accuse me of doing nothing. What kills her is that I will make decisions. She does not like them when they are made and——

Road Traffic Offences. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: ——keeps moving the goalposts every time I do something.

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 107 and 108 together. I am committed to the further expansion of bus services both in Dublin and nationally. In this context, Transport 21 provides for significant Exchequer investment in expanding bus services in the greater Dublin area and in other urban and rural areas outside Dublin. As regards the bus market in Dublin, as I have indicated to this House...

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The supplementary question asked by the Deputy is very different from that submitted, but I am happy to deal with it.

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: Of course I have and she well knows the policy. It is set out for her benefit quite clearly in Transport 21.

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: Between the two of ye, every time ye get up and ask a question, ye want to keep going. Does the Deputy want me to answer the question?

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: Does the Deputy want me to answer the question?

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: If the Deputy wants me to answer, I have no problem, but she might allow me the same respect I have given her in putting the question.

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I am not prepared to give to any agency under my aegis resources belonging to taxpayers without a basis and proper business plan for doing so. That is a reasonable position. Dublin Bus was made aware of this, as was Bus Éireann. They accepted the challenge. They accept that they have a responsibility to make a business case to me based on the network review they are carrying out. They say...

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: I only received the application some days ago, on 20 January. Time is needed to process the application.

Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy asked me when more buses will be put into the market.