Results 5,401-5,420 of 6,846 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: How many new routes are expected or intended in 2024?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. Will the Minister point us towards the fare restructuring? It is a significant issue of importance in my county and in many regions. The expectation is that the first phase will kick in-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: September?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: To go back to the Minister's point on the need for multi-annual budgeting, at a wider level the budget plugs into the national development plan. Is there an update on how negotiations are going or when we might see an update of the national development plan? We have consistently raised the need for additional funding to 2030 and there are challenges in that regard, as the Minister has said....
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: Is it a question of additional funding or does the Minister see a role for other vehicles? Is it literally a negotiation within the Government between party leaders and the Department of public expenditure or how will he get something like this over the line? Will the new climate and infrastructure fund play a role in that? How does the Minister square all this?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: Coming back to Connecting Ireland, the Department will not do as much this year as it did last year. Is that related to constraints on current spend? We hear from providers that this is going to be a tighter or more difficult year. As I understand, we have changed the critical skills list and opened other avenues for drivers and mechanics. What is behind the reduction?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I take the Minister's point, but the figure was €3.88 million for the first year, €8.35 million last year and just under €10 million this year, which is year three. Of a fund of €56 million, we have spent in the region of €23 million. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: It is going to be a big final two years.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: That is what the Minister said last year. He said projects scale up. This year, however, he is saying he is going to do less than last year.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I am not disagreeing with that-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: I take the point, but these are fair questions. It is a five-year programme, and there is political support across the board. They are the types of projects we want. We recognise that there are challenges. I am trying to understand the assessment of the Department and the Government as to how they will grow the projects.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: The Minister would get a Supplementary Estimate.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024) Darren O'Rourke: There is now an assembly in the North and the Minister’s portfolio crosses two or three Departments in the North. Does he have plans to meet his counterparts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for their interesting presentations. We are where we are, as they say, but we are where we are for a reason. We have systems designed in certain ways and agencies have remits that pull in different directions, sometimes directly contradictory ones. There has been much discussion of a catchment-based approach, a multi-agency approach and working collaboratively, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: What type of legislative changes? Mr. Murphy talked about bureaucracy, red tape and barriers. In practical terms, what does that look like? You guys are at the coalface.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: Anthony Allen is from Kells, County Meath. He has advanced motor neurone disease and has been an inpatient in the ICU in Cavan General Hospital since St. Valentine's Day 2023, one year tomorrow. Since March of last year, 11 months ago, his medical team have supported the plan to discharge Mr. Allen home but because of his high level of need this will require a specialised home care package....
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to open a new Consulate General Office in Cape Town, South Africa. [6156/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the dates in 2023 and to-date in 2024 on which he or his officials spoke with the Irish Consul General in Sydney, in tabular form. [6157/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 363. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the chairperson position in the Arts Council will be filled; and the length of time this position has been vacant for. [6160/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (13 Feb 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: 364. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will attend the next EU tourism ministers meeting. [6161/24]