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- Written Answers — Marine Safety: Marine Safety (19 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL) are an example of long-standing British-Irish and North-South co-operation serving the mutual interests of its communities. There are three General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) for Britain and Ireland. CIL are the authority for all of Ireland, the Northern Lighthouse Board for Scotland and the Isle of Man and Trinity House for England and Wales. The...
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (19 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 252 together. The RSA's advertising budget has been reduced from â¬3.4m to â¬0.9m for 2009, as a result of cuts in advertising budgets which were imposed this year across all Departments and Agencies. The RSA will continue to implement its programme of road safety awareness, education and research, with a budget of â¬4m in 2009. These remain...
- Written Answers — Dublin Transport Authority: Dublin Transport Authority (19 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: My Department is proceeding with preparations for the establishment of the Dublin Transport Authority during 2009. A key part of those preparations is the recruitment of a Chief Executive Officer and the necessary recruitment process is currently at an advanced stage. The recruitment process is being undertaken by the Public Appointments Service, and is aimed at attracting interest from...
- Written Answers — Search and Rescue Service: Search and Rescue Service (19 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The Irish Coast Guard (IRCG) purchases goods and services under a range of contracts that vary from minor to major purchases for search and rescue. The main contract during 2008, for helicopter search and rescue services, amounted to approximately â¬26 million. The total Vote expenditure by the IRCG for 2008 was approximately â¬36 million. This covered all expenditure, including allowances...
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (20 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: It is no longer the practice to designate sites on the public road network as blackspots. The emphasis now is on identifying locations with a high accident record and devising suitable remedial measures. The undertaking of any survey of its road network, to, inter alia, ascertain its condition, including identification of locations with a high accident record, is a matter for each local...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (20 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: As provided for under Section 30 of the Harbours Act 1996, I have sought nominations for the current vacancy on the board of Dublin Port from a number of stakeholders. The Chambers of Commerce of Ireland, IBEC, ICTU and a number of representative bodies from the shipping sector were included in the consultation and I received a number of nominations. The Ports Policy Statement gives a...
- Written Answers — Port Development: Port Development (20 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: Rosslare Europort differs somewhat from the other ten State owned commercial ports, in that it operates as a commercial division of Iarnród Ãireann, rather than a stand alone company under the Harbours Acts. The port is the second largest roll on/roll off port in the country and provides important transport links to the UK and continental Europe. Traffic through the port has grown...
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (20 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in Tables 1 and 2 below. Table 1 lists the appointments I have made to State Boards and State bodies in the period from 1 January 2009 to date. Table 2 provides details of the existing and anticipated vacancies in the period ending 31 December 2009. I will give due consideration to filling any particular vacancy as and when that vacancy...
- Written Answers — Lighthouse Service: Lighthouse Service (21 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The Commissioners of Irish Lights (CIL) are an example of longstanding British-Irish and North-South co-operation serving the mutual interests of its communities. There are three General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) for Britain and Ireland. CIL are the authority for all of Ireland, the Northern Lighthouse Board for Scotland and the Isle of Man and Trinity House for England and Wales. The...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by the Department of Transport to outside businesses in respect of goods and services received is 21 days. The details of the average time for payment by each individual agency is a matter for the agencies themselves.
- Rural Transport Services. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: In the past ten years the capacity and quality of bus and rail services provided by Iarnród Ãireann and Bus Ãireann have increased in line with high levels of capital and current funding. The majority of track and signalling infrastructure on the regional rail network has been upgraded, and the rolling stock fleet has been completely renewed. Station facilities and accessibility have...
- Rural Transport Services. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: I do not know what cutbacks the Deputy is talking about. The subvention given to Bus Ãireann and CIE companies generally increased this year. In the supplementary budget on 7 April, we had to take â¬10 million of the increased subvention from the company but we did not do that until we received an assurance from the company that it would be able to find that extra money through sales of...
- Rural Transport Services. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is wrong, we have not cut back the subsidy to Bus Ãireann, I have told him that.
- Rural Transport Services. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: I explained what is happening to the Deputy a few minutes ago and I am not going to waste Dáil time repeating it. The overall subsidy available to Bus Ãireann is as it was. The difficulty faced by CIE is being faced across the country in a range of sectors - a reduction in the number of passengers using the buses leading to a fall in revenue. We have asked Bus Ãireann to live within its...
- Road Traffic Offences. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (SI No. 477 of 2006) the operation of the penalty points were applied. At the end of March 2009 there were 192,686 penalty points events recorded in respect of drivers who did not present an Irish driving licence. Of this total, a foreign licence was presented in 142,588 instances. The NVDF only contains records of...
- Road Traffic Offences. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is silent when the number of fatalities decreases.
- Road Traffic Offences. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: Let us keep it as an all-party issue then and not make political statements about it. As the Deputy knows, we have all had this experience at various times. There will be a decline in fatalities for a number of months then there will be a sudden increase in incidents. The Deputy is right, the three months just past were worse than the same three months last year. Overall, fatalities are...
- Road Traffic Offences. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: As I explained to the Deputy, of the 192,000 cases for which penalty points could not be recorded, 142,588 were foreign drivers.
- Public Transport. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: Significant investment in public transport has been undertaken in recent years which has facilitated major improvements in the safety of our transport systems and increased capacity on bus and rail networks. Work on three new Luas lines is currently under way as is work on the new commuter line in Cork, the first phase of the western rail corridor and the first phase of the Navan rail line...
- Public Transport. (26 May 2009)
Noel Dempsey: As I said to the Deputy, no such decisions have been taken. Transport 21 remains the framework for what we want to achieve. I have made it clear here and outside this House that I intend to bring every project I can right through to the stage where they go to tender and money is required. At that stage the final decisions will be made on what projects go ahead based on an economic...