Results 6,981-7,000 of 7,574 for speaker:John Brady

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: Absolutely. In 2023, what happened when the five-year contract was up?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: Ms Graham acknowledges the serious failings. There was an opportunity-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: As the people who have contacted me see it, and I agree, we are post Covid now and those issues are still happening on the routes I am speaking about.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: There was an opportunity to address it but a decision was taken by the NTA to extend the contract for Go-Ahead Ireland and reward it for its failings. Am I right in saying that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: BusConnects has the potential to provide a brilliant service. In my constituency, critical new local public transport routes, such as the L1, L2 and L3, are being rolled out. I am concerned that those new routes have been handed over to Go-Ahead Ireland to operate. Was there a tendering process for those new routes for Go-Ahead Ireland? Was Dublin Bus given the opportunity to provide the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: Sorry. There is a real concern that given the failures of Go-Ahead Ireland to put in place a service that people can rely on, the lessons have not been learned and by rewarding them and giving them additional routes, we will be left with a continuation of further bad routes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: They are operated by a service provider that has a very questionable track record both in the UK and Ireland.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: Perhaps if the witnesses could furnish that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: In the last two minutes I wish to-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: I wish to move on to another area, which is the complete underinvestment in our rail infrastructure. The Rosslare to Dublin rail line is absolutely not fit for purpose. I have raised this on a number of occasions. On a daily basis - this has been the case both pre-Covid and post Covid - six rail journeys a day stop at the train station in Wicklow town. Every morning, the 7.30 a.m. train...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: Sorry, I am conscious of the time. I appreciate there is a broader, bigger piece of work being looked at. However, people need the investment here and now. Surely we do not need consultants to look into putting an additional couple of carriages at the end of a train that is going through the train stations on a daily basis. We do not need a broader, longer piece of work to do something as...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: It is a no-brainer.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Licences (8 May 2024)

John Brady: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on an application for a Master 500 captain licence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (8 May 2024)

John Brady: 475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in relation to amendments to the Maternity Protection Act 2004 allowing for the postponement of maternity leave in the case of a cancer diagnosis, he still supports his public commitment to this policy; what actions he is taking to ensure this legislation passes through the relevant stages of the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 May 2024)

John Brady: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application for a family (details supplied) can be escalated, as the applicants' travel date is imminent and the applications have passed the target issue date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (9 May 2024)

John Brady: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding and supports are available to students studying psychotherapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20946/24]

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

John Brady: I thank the delegation for coming to discuss an important issue which is causing communities throughout the State anxiety, stress, concern and fear as regards the handling of education. There appears to be a poor forward planning process in place. That is certainly evident in my constituency of Wicklow. How would the witnesses sum up the Department's current approach to forward planning,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

John Brady: Ms McNally said that planning has worked, but it has not. It has failed. Forward planning has fundamentally failed. Wicklow is one example of that but there are many other examples across the State. I will quickly read a letter I got from a pupil in Wicklow only this Monday. It is very brief and says: Hello, my name is [I am not going to give his name, for obvious reasons] and I go to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

John Brady: This is an annual occurrence. It is not a one-off occurrence in the Greystones area. Unfortunately, Ms McNally's words ring hollow to this pupil and his family and to the other families who are in a similar situation to the parents and pupils of last year, the year before that and so on. There is a cyclical failure by the Department to deal with this. Ms McNally said that forward...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

John Brady: The local authority did see it. There is a planning process there. There are population targets laid down. It saw it. There was a real failure here to plan properly, both by the Department and the local authority. There was no joined-up thinking. Education is one area but there are other areas which have failed here in terms of amenities. Pupils should have a basic and fundamental...