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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Shannon Airport has an enormous role to play. While it does not have the same catchment in terms of population, one could drive a good bit further and still get through Shannon Airport more quickly than if one had to drive to Dublin and catch a flight from Dublin Airport. Shannon Airport needs to remind people that the region has a smaller local population in terms of Limerick, Shannon and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Ó Céidigh for his attendance. We all forget how valuable pre-clearance is as an asset. I presume that even those private jets can use it if they are coming in at all hours. They cannot do that in Luton or in loads of other places. It is important to know that one has pre-clearance when one lands in America. A flight could be delayed and it happened to me one time;...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: The official title for this session is active travel and public transport. I was a member Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which I think has been quite topical recently. In 2010, I was elected the cycling champion of the county council. That did not mean I was any good at cycling, it just meant I was supposed to promote cycling, which was far less fashionable then than it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Is that to Sandyford?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: What does it say, if Mr. Spratt is allowed to tell us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: How do we get modal shift?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: And, equally, safe. That is an important word to include.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: We have had a lot of issues with safety on public transport in Dublin recently. That is very important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I will conclude now. My final point is that there are issues with antisocial behaviour on longer distance modes of travel such as trains but particularly on the Luas more recently and on buses. Whether it is a transport police or whatever else we need, people want to use public transport but if they do not feel safe on it, they will not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: You have an airport.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses. I wish to make a few points. I remember being on holidays in Hungary some years ago and you could bring your bike into train carriages. There were seats at either end of the carriage, and you could hang your bike up on a rack in the middle, in the same way as a coat, but it was for bikes. I am not sure such a facility is on Irish trains at all. There seems to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When do we hope the first BusConnects corridor will have been completed, with works done and operational, versus the final one? Is it a ten-year, three-year or 15-year plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: How many can be done at one time? If 16 corridors are to take two years each, we will be talking 32 years. I presume that is not the case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: When might the first corridor be complete and when is it hoped they will all have been delivered by? I am not trying to tie down the Department to something I will post on social media in ten years' time. I am just trying to determine when, roughly speaking, people might be able to use the first corridor and when it is hoped to have the project completed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: The ambition is to have it substantially completed in the next eight years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: Finally, how proactive is the Department in regard to the green schools programme? I acknowledge it seeks interest from schools but does it ask each school about its travel practices? Does it ask schools whether their travel comprises, say, 80%, 90% or 20% by car? What level of resources does the Department have to help bring schools with it to reduce the number of cars on the road and to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Gerry Horkan: If I may come in on that point, there is reference to 130 secondary schools. There are approximately 700 secondary schools in the country.