Results 10,721-10,740 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is in real trouble after last Monday. Our Luas is not looking like it is in good shape.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: There was a vote in Cork City Council against the first section of a bus corridor on the Wilton Road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If that northern corridor is done, it will fit into the Dunkettle effect, or would have to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Would Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, not change the design or the operation or any other characteristics of the Dunkettle roundabout?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If Dunkettle is freeflow and no longer a bottleneck, then the N8 option is an easier route. There would be no need for the northern corridor and the Dunkettle upgrade could be used as planned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When I was coming out of Cork recently at 8.30 a.m., there was a three-mile tailback to those pharmaceutical plants in Little Island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Has an analysis been done as to what the increased level of traffic will be if the Dunkettle interchange goes ahead as planned? What increased volume of traffic is expected on the southern ring road coming up to the Kinsale Road roundabout and those areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How does upgrading a freeflow road system lead to fewer cars?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How does it lead to fewer cars?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Where is the planned park-and-ride for traffic from the east on the N25?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a vested interest because we had a family farm in Glounthaune, meaning I know the area. How big an area would one need for a park-and-ride facility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is, and pretty too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: As part of the stage 1 plans, has the TII details of what the public transport upgrade will be to carry that park-and-ride traffic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is not in stage 1 or in the design of the Dunkettle upgrade. That is purely a road scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How will cyclists traverse north-south and east-west? There is no cycling in the Jack Lynch tunnel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How will that cross the River Lee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is the same mistake that happened in Dublin being made in Cork where there is no public transport happening and we are investing everything in roads? We say we want to reduce the number of cars and stop sprawl development. Even before the problems last Monday, the light rail for Cork was planned with a 20-year timeframe. This project, if it goes ahead, will have a five-year timeframe. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I just see an endpoint with the Dunkettle interchange as a freeflow. Like we made the Red Cow roundabout and other M50 roads freeflow, we thought that it would solve the problem but, lo and behold, it did not because the volume of traffic always increases to meet the available road demand. We then have to have another choice about widening the ring road. We will be widening everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We will concentrate on Cork rather than Dublin. We have had discussions previously where we are widening all the approach roads to the M50.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of Tax Expenditures (Resumed) (11 Sep 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On a similar theme I am interested in looking at a breakdown of the 800 people who are availing of the Special Assignee Relief Programme, SARP. I wonder how many are working in the constituency of Dublin Bay South. I would say a fair few are working in the Irish Financial Services Centre, IT and so on. There is a concern that we are in danger of creating what has happened in San Francisco...