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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Roads Authority Projects (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The total cost of the project is in excess of €800 million. The land cost alone will be approximately €100 million. Deputy Catherine Murphy spoke about this issue earlier. The total cost of delivering all of the projects we discussed is just over €100 million. The main challenge I face in a project of this scale is that funding cannot be secured; we are instead trying...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Roads Authority Projects (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government is committed to providing for balanced regional development, which is why we have invested in tourism and made great progress in attracting foreign direct investment in many parts of the country. We appreciate the need for investment and employment to be generated across the island. On the contribution of transport, we are continuing to support the maintainenance of the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I am conscious that a decision on whether to proceed with the DART underground project under the current railway order must be made by September if the CPO conditions applicable to the order are to be met. The National Transport Authority has been carrying out technical reviews of all the greater Dublin area public transport projects and I am awaiting delivery of its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: On the Deputy's latter point, I expect that once we decide on the projects to be progressed in the short to medium term, we will be able to apply for and, I hope, receive European funding for such projects as happened in the case of similar projects in the past. Public transport projects are under way, including the Luas cross-city project which has been in receipt of support from European...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: It is precisely because we want to make a contribution to making it easier for people to get around that we are funding and putting in place Luas Cross City. It will deliver an additional 10 million journeys per year on our Luas network to take the number from approximately 30 million to approximately 40 million. While that will make a contribution to movement within the city, the Deputy is...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Accessibility improvements to public transport services are being advanced in the context of Transport for All, which is my Department's sectoral plan pursuant to the Disability Act 2005. The plan promotes the principle of mainstreaming by requiring accessibility to be an integral element of public transport services and sets out a series of policy objectives and targets for all modes of...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: It is public transport. It is transport on a public bus fleet being provided to try to meet the needs of residents. I want to see all forms of public transport being made available and being accessible to everybody in the country, but I note that €74 million has been spent since 2006 by this and previous Governments to make our public transport more accessible for everybody. If I...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I am answering the Deputy's question in regard to the overall fleet.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Many services from across the country go to Connolly Station as the Deputy well knows and if those measures were not in Connolly he would, understandably, criticise me. In 2015 alone, 40 additional wheelchair accessible bus stops were made available in 20 towns across the country.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: A grant of up to €10,000 per vehicle has been proposed and is available to make taxis and hackney vehicles more accessible.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: In his rush to make his point to me, the Deputy clearly did not listen to a single word I said.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: In my contribution, I made it very clear that measures have taken place in Dublin and also in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Sligo.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I also made it very clear that we have put 40 schemes in place in 20 towns across the country.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The very reason these measures have been put in place is that I am fully aware of my national responsibility.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: That is why this and previous Governments have invested over €70 million to make public transport more accessible.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: We are doing this to put in place with the limited funding we have all the measures we can afford and that are available to us to make public transport as accessible as possible.

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I have a number of statutory responsibilities as regards corporate governance oversight of our State commercial port companies under both the harbours Acts and the code of practice for the governance of State bodies. ​These include the requirements in the Acts that a company seek ministerial consent in relation to certain specific activities, such as the establishment of any...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I have met the officers of the management team and board in Dún Laoghaire on a number of occasions to discuss matters of interest to my Department and matters in which we have a very clearly defined role. With regard to the Deputy's specific question on the nature of my ministerial consent, which question I want to answer, I have written to the chairman of Dún Laoghaire Harbour...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The Deputy referred to other projects and I want to be outline the position on these in the interest of clarity. With regard to the urban beach project, my ministerial consent is not required. Similarly, it is not required for developments for the cruise facilities. My consent is required for the diaspora centre and I have already told the Deputy my views on St. Michael's pier. These are...

Other Questions: Tourism Promotion (17 Jun 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The strategies are in place. The Government and its agencies are working very hard to establish direct air services to China to underpin further the growing tourism and trade relations between the two countries. The House will recall that the Chinese Premier visited Ireland along with a number of other Chinese Ministers in May. In his meeting with Premier Li, the Taoiseach welcomed...