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Performance Indicators. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: A key issue not involved in these memoranda of understanding or new contracts is the taking into account of commuters' views. The Minister should insist that commuters should be consulted, particularly where timetables have been changed very recently. On the northern line, trains now take longer to get to Dublin and people are extremely angry that there are more stops on the route. There...

Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The last report the NRA has relating to tunnel safety is the Egis Tunnels report. The executive summary of the report was kept from me and I had to appeal to the Information Commissioner under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to obtain a copy. It stated the result of tests confirm, "that the system is unable to provide the required level of safety, especially in the case of an event...

Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Will the Minister insist on a report from the NRA regarding the safe operation of the tunnel, given the system deemed to be unsuitable for the purpose? How can that be allowed to happen?

Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Port_Tunnel - FootnoteThe only technical report available from the NRA regarding the tunnel concludes it is not safe. Is the Minister aware the NRA said it must commission a new report but it has no funding to do so? It will have to come out of next year's Estimate. The key issue is the authority is not being transparent about the facts regarding the...

Road Safety. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The NRA has no report saying that.

Public Transport. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Vast areas of the greater Dublin area have no bus or rail transport whatsoever due to the expansion of the city in recent years. Approximately 200,000 more people are living in the greater Dublin area and a significant number of them will not have a choice from Dublin bus. In discussing timetabling and accountability from CIE and, in particular, Iarnród Éireann, does the Minister accept...

Departmental Bodies. (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: What happened in the Shannon Foynes Port Company is not acceptable. I accept that the Minister sent the report to the Garda Síochána but we need companies such as CIE, which the Minister mentioned, and the Shannon Foynes Port Company to be accountable in a stronger and more accountable to the Oireachtas, the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Committee of Public Accounts. That is not...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The people to whom the Minister refers will buy less coal.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Two. They could fit on a tandem.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister could leave the House.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: This could be one of the Minister's final appearances in the Chamber.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Here are six fine specimens.

Written Answers — Railway Procurement Processes: Railway Procurement Processes (9 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of an internal Iarnróid Éireann report arising from a reference in the Baker Tilly Report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46221/09]

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to ask two questions, the first of which relates to reports in today's newspapers to the effect that the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment has been informed there could be up to 1,000 compulsory redundancies in Aer Lingus. Will the Taoiseach instruct the directors appointed by the Government to the board of Aer Lingus to ensure that the national interest will...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, but I am raising it now. The Fines Bill should be fast-tracked and passed as quickly as possible so that people who do not possess dog licences or TV licences will not be imprisoned.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Fines Bill is currently on Committee Stage.

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Should people starve?

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: What about the blind and the disabled? Where will they get a job?

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is a very important debate because it fixes forever in the eyes of the citizens of the Republic what our State is really about. If we measure anything in a modern society, it is that a caring democracy, a true republic, values all of its children equally but values particularly those who are disadvantaged - the disabled, the blind, the carers and the very young - in order to give them...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister of State will hear from the people on the ground in his constituency when he visits it, they will give him his answer.