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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 473. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of extending the Púca Halloween festival to each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46220/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Expenditure (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 476. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budgeted spend in each of the next five years to make public transport wheelchair accessible including vehicles, stations and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46303/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 477. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe in which he plans to make public transport wheelchair accessible including vehicles, stations and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46304/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the incentives or grants in place to make taxis and hackneys wheelchair accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46305/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of additional routes planned to be tendered in the public transport network; the detail of the routes; the planned timetables for tendering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46311/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 480. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport routes tendered to non semi-State companies; the date on which the contracts end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46310/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure Programme (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 481. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital budget for transport projects for each of the next five years committed to; the projects funded within this budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46318/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (12 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 485. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Planning Land Use and Transport - Outlook 2040; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46371/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of the growing crime problem, particularly drug crime, in Cork and the lack of Garda resources to deal with it. He stated that he was unable to comment directly on the issue as he did not have an up-to-date briefing. I hope he has since received such a briefing, particularly in light of the smash and grab organised online this week which led...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The number of cases of robbery from the person in Cork between January and September this year is up by 90%. Assaults causing harm in the same period increased by 16%, while minor assaults in Cork city increased by 19%. That is the reality with which we are dealing. The Taoiseach can talk about additional resources all he wants, but those resources are not coming to Cork. I asked him a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is not good enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: There are people behind each of these statistics.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Murders and other homicides have increased in Cork.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: As the Taoiseach will be aware, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. Julian Smith, has again refused to meet Ms Geraldine Finucane this side of a British general election, despite previous commitments to do so. He has said the upcoming general election changes the circumstances. The Taoiseach is well aware that a Supreme Court judgment in February noted there was an unequivocal...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am not familiar with the committees. Will the Taoiseach give me a flavour of who sits on them? I know that he chairs them. Exactly what kind of work is done by them? Do they purely have an oversight role focused on implementation or do they consider the issue of policy development? Perhaps the Taoiseach might outline some of the background to the committees for me.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Taoiseach refined them.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I think the Taoiseach said that the sub-committees on economy and social policy have been combined. I have a different issue to Deputy Burton's, relating to housing. Does housing development come under this particular sub-committee?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yesterday, we saw recent figures from daft.ieon the increasing rents across the State, especially in constituencies that I represent. We are now looking at average rents just in excess of €1,300. That is if one is lucky enough to find a place to rent. Rent caps, their oversight and implementation were a significant part of Government policy. They are failing. There are too many...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (14 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a transport police unit or service within An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46971/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Fleet (14 Nov 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost in each of the past five years for Bus Éireann to hire buses to operate its routes; the fees received by each of the private bus operators over this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46961/19]