Results 3,661-3,680 of 6,556 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Road Safety Authority has stated that. It does no harm to reiterate that point, which also applies to the national car test, NCT, and the rest of it. We are talking about appointments that are difficult to get so we do not need people wasting space or time for everybody else. Am I right that we are still working on the basis that in some point in quarter 2 of 2023 the situation will be...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is okay. Am I right that we will be back to a 12-day wait for NCT appointments by the end of quarter 2 of 2023?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I understand that. The situation is like that of a guy asking for directions in Kerry and being told he should not be starting from there. However, we are where we are. It is not long since representatives of the RSA were before the committee. The Minister of State is not aware that the situation has got any worse. From her point of view, everything is being done in respect of...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We might also ask if it got lost in the Department.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We will look for clarity on that matter. We hope to have that clarity next week. This is happening at a particular time and there is acceptance across the board that at this point we need a solution that does not involve heaping more pressure on people and businesses that cannot afford it. Maybe we need to look at the means and communications by which that happens between TII, the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Okay, so that will be looked at. Obviously, there will also need to be the interaction with TII and whoever else needs to be----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is definitely a positive. What is the time line at this stage on the all-island rail review?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: As with all of these interactions, I will ask about increasing the volume of train journeys being operated between Dublin and Belfast. Plans are in place in relation to delivering the Enterprise. Obviously, I would prefer that they would happen faster, but I accept that it is under way. The committee also had the National Transport Authority and Ms Anne Graham in before us. I cannot say...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, there seems to be some technical issue but I believe an element of imagination is probably needed. Perhaps the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, or the Minister, Deputy Ryan could involve themselves in the conversation. It could not do any harm. What is long-term plan for those reductions? We are speaking about the 50% and there was an issue at one stage about students,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister of State has to deal with issues concerning regional airports. We could all talk about regional imbalance and even what happened in Dublin last year. The committee invited a number of commentators in here, including Mr. Willie Walsh. He spoke in a general sense but was very straight about solutions that would work for Shannon. I say that because sometimes we, in here, have...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We must have a real conversation-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: ----to assure people we are not talking about doing something that, even if we got agreement, displaced an existing service.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I agree with that useful suggestion. Fuel types is a wider issue for air travel but that debate is for another day. Obviously the aviation sector needs to cease using fossil fuels.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: This country cannot operate without planes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There are planning issues and that is the reason there is an ongoing review by the Attorney General. There have been issues with An Bord Pleanála. We, as public representatives, sometimes must deal with issues that communities are worried about. Let me give as an example of the N53 at Rassan, which is townland located north of Dundalk, County Louth. An oral hearing was meant to take...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: All those projects will happen and, on the basis of my bringing them up here, faster and better, yes?

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I think it is fair to say housing is the single biggest issue any of us as constituency Deputies need to deal with. No matter the result decided here today, the fact is that there is no confidence outside, in the wider world, among the people I deal with and, I assume, the people many of my colleagues across this Chamber deal with in the present Government being able to deliver on housing....

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Once again, we are back in this Chamber dealing with some of the many crises at this time. We are talking about energy and we can break that subject into two parts. There is the issue of our capacity difficulties, where we are facing the possibility that we do not have the capacity to deliver and that we could be looking at blackouts. That tells us one thing about our lack of preparations...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Last-minute amendments are not the way to deal with legislation but enough has been said on that. Many of my colleagues have brought up the fact that environmental organisations and the likes of Wind Energy Ireland have brought up particular difficulties with the Bill. They have stated this legislation could deal with a slow-up in being able to deliver on renewable energy. Those are issues...