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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: How can there be different sets of information? Either the bus is somewhere or it is not. How can the information being fed to a screen be different from the information being to a phone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: How can it be different?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Either the aeroplane is on the runway or it is in the air or it is not. How can there be different sets of information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The screen is saying it is coming, and then it vanishes. Why is it saying it is coming if it is not coming?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: There are probably 3,000 or 4,000 stops and X number of screens, and you have thousands of users every day relying on this information, and it is not accurate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: The driver shortages are driver shortages. I still do not get how a system-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: -----spitting out information can be spitting out different versions of the same information. What is it all based on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: So, what happened?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Sorry, Chairman, I will try to conclude on this. The problem is that when I or a schoolchild or an elderly person looks at a screen, we think it means what it says. Logically, they think it means what it says but, in fact, it does not mean what it says. When are we going to have a system in place with the apps? I hear the Dublin Bus app is being phased out, which I am sorry about because...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I am concluding. From my perspective, this is a particularly frustrating session because, there are so few members here, I thought we might get a bit longer. I appreciate why we cannot-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: -----but we need to come back to this, maybe next week or even the week after. This is clearly an enormous issue. I appreciate the work that has been done by Go-Ahead Ireland and Dublin Bus. We need the system to work and for people to have confidence in it. We need more people using and relying on it and being able to rely on it.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Senator Seery Kearney is next.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: I have just arrived so I was not sure who had spoken before the Minister.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Of course, and I have done so.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Amendment Nos. 4 and 5 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: There is no suggestion that this amendment has been ruled out of order anyway. The amendment is certainly valid, whether it is supported or not.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: It is not. If it was, I would not let the Senator speak on it. I call the Minister.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)
Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 15 and 16 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.