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Other Questions: Road Safety Authority (14 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: I ask the Minister to clarify his views and his recent comments on the effectiveness of the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána in tackling unsafe driving and reducing road collisions and fatalities and his plans to assist these bodies in their work and to provide the necessary resources.

Other Questions: Road Safety Authority (14 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: The Minister will agree that the key to safer roads is confidence in the method of enforcement of the rules of the road. Garda resources police the roads and these resources have been slashed. The traffic corps has been slashed from 1,200 to 700 members. The CEO of the RSA has expressed serious concern about the lack of gardaí and checkpoints on the roads. It is one thing to say the...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the serious deficiencies in the provision of wheelchair accessible public transport, such as the Bus Éireann route 190, which is not wheelchair accessible most of the time and when a lift is provided, there is often no qualified person to operate it. [15612/16]

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: I tabled a priority question about the serious deficiencies in the provision of wheelchair accessible public transport but I would like in this question to give an example of the difficulties experienced on a local route in my constituency, which is the Bus Éireann route 190 between Laytown and Drogheda, which is not wheelchair accessible most of the time. When a lift is provided, there...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: There are several wheelchair users in the Laytown-Bettystown area and throughout County Louth and in every other county, town and village. One wheelchair user had been in contact about this issue with the previous Minister and had been in continuous correspondence with Bus Éireann and the Department, all to no avail. As I asked in my priority question, what plans has the Minister that...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (16 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to improve value for money and cover for motorists seeking car insurance, given the recent unprecedented and unjustified hikes in premiums and the difficulty many persons are experiencing in obtaining insurance cover. [15622/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (21 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to raise the rate of value added tax for the tourism sector. [16830/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (21 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to close Saint Laurence's Gate in Drogheda, County Louth, to vehicular traffic to protect and preserve the structure of this ancient and historical gate, which is listed as a national monument. [16835/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (21 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that the funds promised in the capital spend programme 2015 for the urgently needed Laytown-Bettystown link road (R150) are guaranteed for the project; and when this funding will be released. [16780/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (21 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to restrict the access of higher goods vehicles and other large vehicles from St. Laurence's Gate in Drogheda, County Louth given that these vehicles are causing damage to the structure. [16834/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (21 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the inclusion of St. Laurence's Gate, in Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland's Ancient East; and if he will identify it as a gateway to Ireland's Ancient East. [16836/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 15 June 2016, what commitment was given regarding the building of an extension to a school (details supplied) and to explain where the allocated funding has gone; if the loss of funding came as a result of a failure on his Department's part to budget correctly for capital projects; if this failure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 15 June 2016 the reason he reneged on the commitment given to begin works on a school (details supplied) in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18122/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (28 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the funding in 2016 to complete the process of the compulsory purchase of the land required to commence construction of the link road R150 from Bettystown to Laytown. [18184/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Driver Licensing Service (28 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: 524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that persons from the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal have to travel an unreasonable distance to attain a learner permit or driving licence at the National Driving Licence Service office in Letterkenny; if he will support the locating of a new office in the Inishowen peninsula. [18256/16]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: I have a couple of questions on road improvements and maintenance.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: I am sorry Chairman.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: The Minister has answered some of my questions in part. The Minister spoke about road improvements and maintenance and mentioned the difference of €43 million. The gentleman beside him said the spend for 2015 may be matched for this year but can the Minister clarify if this is the case? If it is not the case, is it sustainable to decrease funding for local road improvements and...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: I do not profess to be a sports expert or even an enthusiast at the best of times. The sports application grants are not happening this year. Why is that the case? I know that many clubs across the State have been watching anxiously for the announcement in order that they might make applications. In reading the programme this morning, I ask: was that a deliberate decision by the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (29 Jun 2016)

Imelda Munster: On a point of clarification on the absorption of funding, does that happen every other year or is this the first year that has happened? Are the sports grants made available every year? Do clubs apply for them every year or every second year? Is this the first year that the grants have not been-----