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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: What is being stretched here is the Minister focusing on an issue other than that being asked of him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: I asked the Minister if he saw the report. He is confirming now that he did receive the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: What about the previous reports? The Minister was in office in July and in August in 2016. In terms of whether he read the entire report or simply received a briefing on it, he can be pedantic and split hairs whichever way he wants to but the question is around what actions the Minister took to try to stop the haemorrhaging of funds at the semi-State company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: I do not consider commissioning one report after another as activity. It has been identified by the acting CEO that €7 million was spent in 2016 on the hire of private coaches. This is something the company says can be done without in 2017. Perhaps there is a saving to be made there. At the committee meeting last week, the Bus Éireann acting CEO said that the technology to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: I am not asking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: Are there any vacancies on the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: I do not expect the Minister to micro-manage but I expect him to macro-manage. From the time the Minister was appointed and was made aware, as were his predecessor and the officials in the Department, of the serious financial situation pertaining to Bus Éireann through various reports, what action has been taken? I quoted some of the dates on which the Minister would have received...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: What we are learning this morning is that the Minister has received many reports and has a great number of conversations but there was no action.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: I thank the Minister for his patience and I am conscious that he has to be in the Dáil in a few minutes. The Minister acknowledged that the funding the Department of Social Protection is paying is inadequate. This was identified in some of the earliest reports. It is disappointing that the Minister still has not engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: Can the Minister share it?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to adjust the system whereby a person (details supplied) who was self-employed is not entitled to the same benefits as a PAYE employee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4970/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 235. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement schemes to support persons with Parkinson's disease. [4960/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 270. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, as per the national maternity strategy and safe motherhood, every mother should have a dating scan and a full anomaly scan in pregnancy; the reason only one third of patients at Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, have a dating scan carried out; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that, of...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Data (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of enforcement officers working nationally with the taxi enforcement officers. [5112/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Data (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedure to report illegal activity in the taxi industry to an enforcement officer; and the timeframe for a response. [5113/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Data (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of convictions for illegal activity in the taxi industry in the past two years, by category of conviction. [5114/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Data (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of rural hackney licences in operation. [5115/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the frequency with which he has met the Taxi Advisory Committee since his appointment as Minister. [5116/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (2 Feb 2017)
Robert Troy: 334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to fill the vacant positions on the Taxi Advisory Committee. [5117/17]