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Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: The Government abolished the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Graham for the presentation. My only concern about the DART underground decision is to do with the decision making process itself. If we look back to 2010 when there was an initial cost benefit analysis done on DART underground, the business case suggested a 4.23:1 ratio when measured using the traditional cost benefit analysis - considered to be approximately a €13.3....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: What Mr. Creegan is saying is that the system of establishing the cost-benefit has changed and that is where the figure comes from. Is that correct? I have some information before me which I believe I got from the National Transport Authority through the freedom of information process. It sets out the appraisal sensitivity test. The base case involves high growth and a 60-year appraisal....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: What does 4.3 refer to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: Is Mr. Creegan suggesting that the business case analysis being done on various public projects can change based on a given view, for example, the view of the Minister, the Department or the authority? It seems to me that one can change the criteria to lend to a given person the outcome he desires, within reason. If we change certain fundamentals, the numbers will obviously change. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: That has changed from 2010 to 2015. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: It can undermine public confidence in the way the State does its business. In 2010, when we were at the height of an economic crisis, projections would have been at an all-time low and the general outlook was uncertain, to say the least. Yet, we still get a higher turnout on the basis of the investment. Let us move on to 2015 when things are looking far brighter. We are understood to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: DART Underground and Expansion Projects: National Transport Authority (5 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: During the development of the business case was any cognisance taken of moneys available?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the single payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39008/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Herd Numbers (10 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a herd number has not been transferred given that the application (details supplied) was submitted over six months ago; when the payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (10 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will announce the allocations under the Young Farmers National Reserve Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39625/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (10 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the benefit-to-cost ratio of the revised metro north project announced in the capital plan 2016 to 2021, when measured using traditional cost-benefit analysis; the benefit-to-cost ratio when the wider economic benefits are taken into account; the economic case and appraisals for the project, using different growth scenarios and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give a commitment to engaging with the Web Summit with a view to retaining the event here for 2016 and for future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39534/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: In light of the decision of the promoters of the Web Summit to move the event from Ireland to Portugal, can the Minister indicate what efforts he and the Government have made since that announcement became public to try to retain that event in Dublin next year? What other contacts has either the Minister had or might other Ministers have had with the promoters of that event?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister and while I do not mean for my comments to be taken personally, I am deeply disappointed by the approach taken by various Ministers in response to what can only be described as a tremendous loss to the State. This represents a €100 million loss to the economy next year with the loss of 40,000 people visiting the city, staying in hotels, eating in restaurants and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: The Minister mentioned Fáilte Ireland but the Government's failure to retain this event has put a monkey on the back of that agency. While Fáilte Ireland is out doing good work in selling to people who do not know much about Ireland as a conference destination, our competitor countries now will be pointing out to those people what happened with one of Ireland's own events. It was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: -----which Ireland lost.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: A really proactive approach from the Government is needed. I accept the transport, tourism and sport Department for which the Minister is responsible is not the key Ministry but I believe that were he to take a leap of faith, the Minister could have a meaningful impact on the long-term outcome with regard to bringing it back.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Conference Sector Promotion (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: We will all have a different view about how we got to the position we are in but we need to park that. I do not get the sense from Government that there is a real structured approach to finding a solution. The Web Summit is just over. Yes, the organisers have made a decision but could this decision be changed? There is an offer and they seem to have begun the work with Lisbon but is it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Traffic Offences (11 Nov 2015)

Timmy Dooley: 4. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on reports that just 40% of drink-driving cases result in a conviction; his plans to revise and reform laws on drink driving penalties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39535/15]