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Rural Transport Services (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I will consider it but we must ensure that some of the cost would be met by those who benefit most from people being out late at night.

Rural Transport Services (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Many rural transport groups use private transport and Bus Éireann is hardly involved at all in the provision of these services. Pobal makes the specific funding available to individual rural transport programmes and contracts services. In some cases, rural transport programmes may have their own vehicles but the one of which I am aware in Meath does give facilities and business to the...

Motorway Service Stations (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in regard to the national roads programme element of Transport 21. The implementation of individual national road projects, including service areas, is a matter for the National Roads Authority in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. Section 54 of the Roads Act 1993 specifically provides for the NRA...

Motorway Service Stations (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: He is not in my constituency.

Motorway Service Stations (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: That is precisely what I asked the NRA to do, and I asked it to come back to me with proposals for service areas along these routes that would not cost the Exchequer anything. I agree with the Deputy that the private sector should be in a position to do this, although the NRA has informed me that part of the reason service areas were not provided for initially was that it thought the private...

Motorway Service Stations (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As the Deputy knows, while all of the routes are now being finalised, many of them had gone through the planning process in 2005 and the ones that had not, namely, the M1 and M4, have service areas. It would be unfair to characterise the NRA as not being in favour of providing the service areas as it certainly is in favour of it and it understands the arguments in this regard. It is a...

Motorway Service Stations (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The NRA has allowed for signage for offline services and this has been provided on all of the major inter-urban routes. There are criteria in this regard and in regard to identifying the appropriate locations. It is based on the proximity of a particular premises or facility to an interchange and on an indication of whether the operator can provide the facilities to which Deputy Coveney...

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Since 1 December 2009, the implementation of Metro North is a matter for the National Transport Authority. My Department's policy on the release of cost and economic information on transport projects is designed to protect the taxpayer's interest. There is a balance to be struck between promoting public transparency and ensuring value for money in this regard. The Railway Procurement Agency...

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: It is wonderful that no matter how often a Minister stands up and says a project is going ahead, all it takes is one newspaper article for someone to say it is not going ahead.

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I stand clearly on the record as recently as last Friday down in Gort.

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is correct to note that An Bord Pleanála made a change to the terminal for metro north and has not allowed the depot to go ahead at Belinstown. However, he is not correct to suggest that a new railway order will be necessary. A planning issue must be dealt with for the depot. The NTA and the RPA have estimated that because of the way the planning permission is worded there will...

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I will send the Deputy the blacks of all the times I have stated that I believe this is a very good project which should go ahead. The situation is that we have got the railway order for it. The next procedure is to get the bidders. When the bids come in-----

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Let me inform the House of the procedure because I have no wish for the Deputy to come to the House at the next Question Time and state, "You said it was going ahead".

Metro North (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: When the bids are finalised I must bring a cost-benefit analysis to Government and, once that is done, the Government will make that decision. However, provision is being made for metro north in the capital programme into the future.

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: It will not.

Written Answers — Penalty Points System: Penalty Points System (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: Part 5 of the Road Traffic Act, 2010 provides for the amendment of existing provisions relating to the endorsement of penalty points and disqualifications relating to non-national driving licence holders. The 2010 Act also gives the Gardaí powers to seize a licence where the driver has been disqualified, including following the accumulation of 12 penalty points. Those provisions will be...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: The Road Traffic Act 2010 provides for the introduction of mandatory breath testing of drivers by An Garda Síochána in certain circumstances, including where a Garda attends at the scene of a collision where injury has been caused. Because of the inter-relationship between the section of the Act that introduces mandatory breath testing and other drink driving related sections of the Act,...

Written Answers — Regional Airports: Regional Airports (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: With regard to the Core Airport Management Operational Subvention (Opex) scheme, because of a projected shortfall in the resources available to fund this scheme in 2010, after allowing for estimated requirements for the PSO Air Services Programme for 2010, the six Regional Airports were allocated Opex funding on a pro rata basis in July of this year with no airport getting the full amount it...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme element of Transport 21. The implementation of individual national road projects, including service areas, is a matter for the National Roads Authority in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. Section 54 of the Roads Act 1993 specifically provides for the...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 55 and 71 together. As the Deputy is aware substantial progress has been made on Transport 21 since 2006: · Four of the five major inter-urban motorways and the M50 upgrade have been completed and the final section of the M7 Dublin to Limerick will be open by the end of this year. · The Cork-Midleton line and the first phase of the Western Rail...