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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: It is a mixture. I am clear within my own Department what my priorities are. When I came into office those objectives were published. I meet every month with the management boards of the Department and we review where we are with the priorities that we have set. That is partly by virtue of necessity because there are so many different things going on within my Department that I have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy and will reply to the questions he has put to me. The first one is on the two roads that the Deputy referred to, the Shannon Foynes road and the Adare bypass road. I know as well as the Deputy where those projects stand at the moment. They both face journeys in the planning process and so on, but I believe it is important that yesterday I and the Government made clear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: As the Deputy knows, there is always blue murder about different matters. That is just the nature of the jobs we do. If one looks at the support for the festival programmes and at the support that many of the larger festivals get, one will see that the funding they receive from the Department through Fáilte Ireland has been substantially reduced. We are challenging festival and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising a number of points. First, I will deal the capital spend and the percentage we are investing in regional and local roads. Out of €10 billion programme that I announced yesterday afternoon, some €2.4 billion is for regional and local roads. When I was drawing up the announcement that was made yesterday, I first gave priority to rebalancing our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: We have made additional funding available to support longer advertising campaigns through Tourism Ireland. We are trying to get additional vacations and holidays into Ireland at points of the year when we have the capacity to facilitate them. I will explain how it is working at the moment. I suppose we are in the off-season, or the off-shoulder period, now. We will have to see how it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Yes, we will. We are coming off a decent base in terms of the breadth of indicators we have and how specific some of them are. There is an opportunity to do this more effectively in the future. As we are doing it we will also need a bit more clarity regarding the adjudication of the Oireachtas on the specific measurable and relevant columns.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The committee already has a copy of my statement. We have probably covered the second session fully already, maybe more so than the first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: We have to start somewhere. We have covered all of that. As the committee already has a copy of the statement and it has been circulated, if I may, I might make reference to one or two areas that were not covered in our earlier session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (30 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I might say a word about aviation and maritime, and then a bit about sports, maybe, for four or five minutes, because these are very important areas which were not covered earlier to the degree one would want. On aviation, I draw the committee's attention to the fact that we published the country's first ever national aviation policy in August. It contains 73 actions, all of which reflect...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​I have periodic meetings with the Chief Executive Officer of Iarnród Éireann. While I have no immediate plans at present to meet with him there is, of course, regular interaction between my Department and the CEO and his management team.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Community Involvement Scheme (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: A separate pilot Community Involvement Scheme (CIS) was run in 2013 and 2014. The scheme has reverted back to allowing local authorities to set aside 7.5% of their Restoration Improvement (RI) and Restoration Maintenance (RM) grants for CIS schemes if they so wish. The Local Improvement Scheme remains in place but there is no separate allocation available towards this grant...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme. The planning, design and implementation of individual road projects is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) formerly the National Roads Authority (NRA) under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2007 in conjunction with the local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 266 to 268, inclusive, together. Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 477 of 2006), the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has overall responsibility for the operation, oversight, development, quality assurance and delivery of the National Car Testing Service (NCTS).  The recent Volkswagen...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​The provisions referred to by the Deputy relate to fixed charge offences, and I have no plans to change them. Under section 3 of the Local Government (Traffic Wardens) Act 1975, as substituted by section 12 of the Road Traffic Act 2002, traffic wardens are empowered to issue fixed charge notices for certain offences, including parking offences. This measure was introduced under the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Metro West was proposed under Transport 21as an orbital metro connecting Tallaght and Blanchardstown in the west of Dublin with the original Metro North proposal to Swords. The project was to be procured as a Public Private Partnership, however a significant Exchequer contribution would also have been required.   In October 2010 the then Railway Procurement Agency (RPA)...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from local authorities' own resources supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (6 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​As Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme.  The planning, design and implementation of individual road projects (such as the N20) is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) formerly the National Roads Authority (NRA) under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2007 in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration Data (6 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 753 and 754 together. In the case of vehicles registered in 2007 and earlier years, there were a total of 592,885 change of ownership declarations in the period 1 January to 30 September 2015. Some 125,804  of this number relate to changes to motor dealers who are required under law to become the registered owners of vehicles traded in or...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Current road traffic legislation in Ireland is a complex of primary and secondary legislation, dating back to the Road Traffic Act 1961.  In addition, some aspects of road traffic legislation - for example, driver licensing - also operate within a framework of EU legislation. The Deputy refers to making it more understandable to citizens in general - in fact, it is widely...