Results 11,941-11,960 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Is Deputy Coppinger looking for a list of all of those routes?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Is the gross cost contract the issue there?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The problem is that this is an Estimates meeting and it is only Members of the Dáil who can be here. There is correspondence which the committee received from Deputy Coppinger on that issue but it can only properly be considered by the joint committee.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Can I get clarity on this? Would it be helpful if the Minister can supply details, today or as soon thereafter, of these routes and how PSO routes are defined?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Hold on a second, I am trying to be helpful.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: There is additional funding being spent here and the members are entitled to know what the routes are and whether they are PSO or not. Is that not the point at issue here?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: At a meeting of the joint committee, Deputy Coppinger's correspondence will be read. I presume that would be agreed. Is there any other point arising from the debate today?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The problem I see there is that I could be a private operator but I am not getting any funding from the Department. The Department might not even know that I am there.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: My point is, how would the Department know?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: If I want to run a bus from A to B, can I do that?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The NTA is coming in next week. We cannot debate that at the meeting as such but we can ask its representatives to address that issue. I presume we will agree to a meeting thereafter.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Because there is a PSO. The PSO is a subsidy.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister stated "working capital" here.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Go-Ahead will draw down the money but, before it goes through, in the interim it will go to the NTA to pay Go-Ahead. Is that the case?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Go-Ahead is due a sum, and the money goes to the NTA to pay that sum. Is that the case?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: I have no issue with Mr. Doyle speaking if he wishes. I presume that the other committee members are also happy with it.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Is everyone happy to move on from the second heading?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy, the Minister is entitled to give his reply.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: We will move onto the third heading, which relates to maritime administration and the Irish Coast Guard.