Results 11,701-11,720 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: It might be an appropriate question to put to the companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: Perhaps Ms Murdock can give us a breakdown of the numbers. It is a very good question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: It might be helpful if the authority could give us an analysis of the school buses that were stopped.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: The 40 buses from Bus Éireann might not all have been school buses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: It will give a benchmark and will help to inform us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: Whatever view one may have about what the Deputy is saying, the RSA has no role in this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: I was driving somewhere recently and a bus was travelling at a very high speed as it went into the port tunnel, which was very dangerous. I was concerned for the passengers and everyone else so I rang the Garda to make a complaint. I was told that, because the journey was less than 60 km, the regulation did not apply. The tachograph would show the speed at which the bus was driving but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: This was going into the port tunnel at 80 km/h or more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. That is why I reported it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: If it was going 10 km further it would require a tachograph.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: A significant number of buses on shorter routes can break the speed limit without it being recorded by a tachograph.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: No, I am not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: I accept that nobody is entitled to exceed the speed limit at any time. I travel the roads a lot and I know that it is rare, but a bus that does exceed the speed limit is extremely dangerous. Going into the port tunnel at speed is a recipe for disaster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: Members of the Garda rang me back to say they did go to the company. They had no way of knowing other, than what I told them, although there is no doubt about the veracity of it. How do we change that and make it safer? I appreciate the law is A, B and C.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am talking about tachograph elements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is an EU exemption?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is an issue though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is a question for the National Transport Authority.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am glad to hear that. Can I say, before we finish the meeting, that I absolutely reject what the Deputy says about the role of the RSA? Regulation is passed by the Oireachtas and any powers the RSA has comes from there. I would like to see greater enforcement, not less. As for the loss of anyone's life as a result of dangerously defective buses or cars or of dangerous driving, the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Safety of School Transport Bus Fleet: Road Safety Authority (24 Oct 2018)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is no problem.