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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: We will engage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: That is why I want to touch on this matter. It has not really been touched on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the witnesses for their efforts on behalf of their members. I assure them that most, if not all, members of the committee, including myself, will be happy to engage with them further. Coach operators are the backbone of many parts of Irish society, for example, summer camps, schools that are travelling to matches, people going on tours, residents' groups, etc. All kinds of people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Or the RSA or the NTA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: We are all on the same side in here. There is none of this Opposition stuff at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Brady for his presentation. From what I am seeing, this is the TII report on the impact of national road speed limit reductions so it is all about the national road network. I read the 29-page document as much as the opening statement. TII was focusing purely on the national road network, namely, the motorways and national dual and single carriageways. Much of the traffic we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: They would also encounter congestion in towns and villages that they would not encounter on the motorway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Is that the main reason people in TII's model go off better, safer roads and onto older roads? I do not understand why people would do that, other than to save on tolls, if the speed limit is the same on both roads.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: They get speed savings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, because of speed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Urban areas are not dealt with in TII's report but are kind of in its conclusions, where it is stated: "Concentrated, slow-moving traffic in congested urban areas results in higher amounts of emissions per vehicle-kilometre." Appendix A very much reflects that. What are the witnesses' thoughts on Love 30? If everybody in Dublin or all urban areas were mandated to drive at no faster a speed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Brady is the engineer in the room, though. I mean this in a positive way. His written submission states: "I have a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Masters of Science in Applied Maths and Computing and have worked in the transport sector since 2000." I am looking to pull on his expertise as he is in the room. Appendix A shows that the slower a vehicle drives the higher its...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Ms Hughes is talking about routes that involve a lot of freight vehicles and forcing freight to drive at 30 km/h. Ideally, active travel and so on are separated from freight. That was the whole purpose of the port tunnel and lots of other interventions. I was cycling yesterday and a fuel tanker came flying through Ranelagh at a speed that I would say was a lot faster than 30 km/h or 50...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Fair enough. I am quite positively disposed towards Love 30. I just wanted to get the take of the witnesses on it because, clearly, the slower a driver goes the more emissions produced per kilometre travelled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Electric vehicles over time will change a lot of this activity anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: It is to be hoped we will not be having this discussion in ten years. Is it by 2030 that petrol and diesel vehicles can be driven but can no longer be sold? The conclusion I am getting at is that there is not an awful lot of value in deciding to change the speed limit on the national motorway network from 120 km/h to 100 km/h. In fact, it could result in an increase in fatalities or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: A reduction in speeds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: It would cause more problems than it would solve.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: We would be dropping the speed limits on the motorways and then dropping the speed limits-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Gerry Horkan: -----on the old roads in order that the comparative advantage is still there.