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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: Sorry Minister-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: However, a second-class service-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: No, I am talking about less frequency and less comfort. That is exactly what the Minister said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: Over-saturation again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: Here we go again. This is back to licences given to private operators who can amend their licence a couple of weeks later if the route does not turn out to be financially viable. They can amend it. They can pull it and the public service route is then gone. The Minister is standing over that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: But the Minister is pulling out the public service route.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: The Minister is pulling it out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but the Minister is removing it. He is removing public transport routes across the country and replacing them with private operators to which the NTA has given licences, knowing full well that they can withdraw those licences or amend them to lower frequency services. Meanwhile, the Minister is abandoning parts of rural Ireland and leaving them at the mercy of private operators who can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: The Minister is standing over the removal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: The Minister is standing over them.

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: On Monday, the workers at Bus Éireann will embark on an all-out strike in an attempt to protect their livelihoods and to protect our public transport network right across the State. They will do so in the face of the refusal by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, to do his job. They will do so in the face of the determination of management and Government...

Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: Our public transport subvention is the lowest in Europe. I am blue in the face listening to the Minister, Deputy Ross, and Government representatives saying that this is an industrial dispute. For the past five months, the Government has been asked repeatedly to engage with all of the stakeholders, including the NTA, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Bus Éireann...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: The programme for Government includes ambitious plans for the recruitment of additional nurses and midwives. In fact, that undertaking is mentioned in no fewer than five sections of the document. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, is scheduled to take industrial action next Tuesday and while talks are taking place at the Workplace Relations Commission, the proposed action has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments Data (7 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the post primary student population nationally for the school year 2013 to 2014. [11292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (7 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: 321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedures that are in place to ensure that sponsors of community employment, CE, schemes manage and operate in accordance with the guidance as set out in the CE procedures manual, in particular the implementation of the 12 week exit plan for participants, adequate in situ on-the-job training and the three month follow-up on exiting the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (7 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: 322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the accountability measures in existence for sponsors and managers of community employment schemes that fail to implement the programme as set out in the community employment procedures manual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11597/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (7 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: 323. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the avenues and protections that are in place for participants on community employment, CE, schemes that wish to complain regarding the management and operation of a CE scheme by a sponsor or manager; if consideration will be given to the appointment of CE advocates to facilitate in providing an impartial and neutral place for participants to air...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (7 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: 608. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE's plans for the transfer of dental patients to Dundalk, Navan and Ardee for treatment due to the lack of dental services for primary school children in Drogheda and south County Louth (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11870/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Pupil Data Collection (7 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: 821. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of post primary suspensions listed by name of individual school in County Louth for the school year 2013/2014 (details supplied). [11293/17]

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to Disability Service in the South East and Related Matters): Motion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Imelda Munster: Grace is a victim of a series of appalling and shameful failures. Back as far as 1992, allegations and concerns were first raised about the suitability of the placement in that particular foster home. There were allegations of physical abuse and neglect. There were further allegations concerning at least four other children in the same home. Nothing was done. Nobody was held to account....