Results 3,721-3,740 of 10,573 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The authority did not do that as the motorway network was being developed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: This is important. Since the motorway network was developed, has there been any attempt by the NTA to look at PSO services to the towns that were bypassed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Does it include the school transport service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Nolan said there were three people in Athy using the service. How much is the service costing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What will the company save in getting rid of the two services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Will Mr. Nolan tell us what the figure is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much is the service costing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much are those two services costing? What is the annual cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Nolan has not answered it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: In fairness to the people whose service is being cut, they should be given this information. Taxpayers should know how much the service is costing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Bus Éireann is a semi-State company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is the shareholder in Bus Éireann which is a semi-State company and operating public service obligation routes outside its Expressway services. It is fair to ask, on behalf of the people who are losing their service, how much it is costing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Bus Éireann is taking away the service. It has shown its hand. This is like a poker game. I do not think it is too much to ask how much its decision to take away this service will save. What is it costing? Are the delegates refusing to answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is regrettable, as Bus Éireann is a semi-State company. The National Transport Authority has made it clear that it would like to have additional resources available to Bus Éireann. The representatives of Bus Éireann who have come to this meeting are trying to defend the decision to remove this service, but they are not willing to tell Members of the Oireachtas how much...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say it did. I was speaking generally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Services are about to be removed from two communities and the delegates are refusing to tell us how much they cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: JJ Kavanagh is not answerable to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is not responsible for JJ Kavanagh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: With the greatest of respect, Bus Éireann has shut the door on these communities.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (12 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: 31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that carbon monoxide alarms should be installed in all public places such as hotels as a matter of public safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10236/15]