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State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: -----and from that point of view the criticism is not justified. The airport is well run. It has delivered on its projects. Terminal 2 will come in on schedule and within budget and will provide a fantastic facility for people arriving into this country.

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is incorrect in claiming I shelved plans for the separation of Shannon and Cork Airports from the Dublin Airport Authority. Due to the severe economic downturn and its effects on the international aviation industry, the chairs, boards and management of the various airports requested me to postpone the planned separation of the Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports from the one...

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy cannot have it both ways.

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The way to making their own decisions is to become an independent company. I am agnostic on this matter and have listened carefully to all sides in the debate. However, once an airport decides to go independent, it will no longer have the protection of the larger organisation. It will be on its own. If that is the final decision-----

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As long as people know the ground rules in this matter. I do not know too many people involved in Shannon Airport or the wider Shannon region who believe the airport could have survived the current downturn in the aviation industry.

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The chair, management and board of the airport made the right decision requesting a deferral of the autonomy plans during this downturn. If people change their minds, I will take their points on board.

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I know exactly where the Deputy is coming from. Some people would like to have no responsibility and just access to the cash. I am not saying that applies to Shannon Airport management. However, a subsidiary company cannot be able to spend moneys belonging to its parent company unless it is prepared to take responsibility. The structure is not in place in the Dublin Airport Authority for...

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: That is why we made that decision but it may change next year. The difficulty is that one cannot have a company which is part of a larger company making its own decisions while the larger body pays for it. It is getting the balance right that is important. Next year, I would be open to the airports deciding to take the route of separation from the Dublin Airport Authority.

State Airports (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy will appreciate I do not involve myself in the day-to-day operational matters of the authority. I am not aware it has broken any procurement laws or otherwise. If the authority wants to set up subsidiary companies, a general policy is in place that they cannot be a drain on the main company and must operate separately to it. It also cannot add to the costs of passenger travel,...

Road Network (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Under the agreement of March 2007 between the Irish and British Governments on a funding package to support the restored Northern Ireland Executive, the Irish Government made a commitment to provide funding of £400 million or €580 million in a roads investment package for Northern Ireland which will contribute to the upgrading to dual-carriageway status of the A5 road from Aughnacloy to...

Road Network (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: That is a matter for the NRA. At the moment, the NRA is reviewing all the road projects identified for the coming five to ten years and the matter will be considered in the context of that review. It will be based on a range of criteria, including the likely traffic numbers on the road etc. The matter is under review. When the review is finished, the NRA will be in contact with the...

Road Network (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I would be pleased to receive anything from the NRA but I will not pre-empt what it decides as the best way to link the two roads. That should be done in the most cost effective and efficient way possible and I await the NRA's proposal in this regard. It would be unfair of me to pre-empt the matter. I am not an engineer. I foresee there will be a good deal of traffic involved and I have...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Order for Report Stage (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I have thought carefully about it but the reasoning I gave on Committee Stage remains valid. There are other elements in the Bill which it might not be possible to commence and make operational within the proposed 12 month period. I made reference at that time to what is now section 44 of the Bill, by way of example, which involved the out-sourcing of certain functions by the Courts Service...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: " "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister;". This is a technical amendment.

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I accept the spirit of the amendment and the Deputy's motive in tabling it to strengthen the legislation. I examined it carefully and took advice from the Office of the Attorney General and the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. Due to the nature and volume of challenges in the courts to all intoxicated driving offences and the current acceptance by the courts of the well-established meaning of...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I acknowledge the Deputy is ahead of me in this matter and is anticipating future legislation. However, as I explained on Committee Stage, the Road Safety Authority is examining the definitions of mechanically propelled vehicles and pedal cycles in road traffic legislation in the context of the development of a new EU framework regulation on type approval governing two and three-wheeled...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I clarified this since Committee Stage. The definition provided for in section 3 of the principal Act states, "public place means any street, road or other place to which the public have access with vehicles whether as of right or by permission and whether subject to or free of charge." I have been advised this covers the Deputy's concerns. The proposed deletion of the words "in a public...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I have reflected on these amendments. However, I have been advised against introducing such a term of imprisonment in summary trial cases as it would go against the overall intention of such trials. The only instance in road traffic legislation in which a term of imprisonment of 12 months is provided for is in section 112 of the principal Act, taking a vehicle without authority. There is a...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 13: In page 13, to delete lines 11 to 18 and substitute the following: "(a) is of opinion that a person in charge of a vehicle in a public place— (i) has consumed intoxicating liquor, the member shall require, or (ii) (I) is or has, with the vehicle, been involved in a collision, or (II) is committing or has committed an offence under the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2010,...