Results 12,361-12,380 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: I do not know whether the Deputy has taken a straw poll of the residents or has met one or two. To make the statements he did is absurd and irresponsible. I take exception to them because nobody has met more of the residents about the issue of noise than I have. Every Deputy who has asked me to meet residents' groups has been received and I have listened to what they have to say. If...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: It is a little bit excitable of the Deputy to say that I have refused to engage with anybody on this. I am perfectly happy to engage with the Deputy on this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: I did not need the briefing; the Deputy did. I have been briefed on this on a regular basis virtually every day. This was a briefing-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: -----which was arranged for the Deputy and anybody else who wanted to go to it and was interested in the matter. As the Deputy said, this is one of the most important projects-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: -----which faces the country at the moment. Of course we would welcome the support of Fianna Fáil for the runway.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: Of course we would welcome anybody who is interested in this and we will inform them and keep them up-to-date because it is too important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: I will answer the Deputy's question if he does not interrupt me. He is taking up a lot more time. I am willing to meet anybody-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: -----at any time on this issue and my officials have engaged-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: -----in conversations. I cannot hear myself, let alone Deputy Troy. I certainly cannot-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: I will engage with anybody relevant to the project to promote it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Noise Pollution Legislation (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: My officials have engaged with them intensely recently.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Network (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: This is not the first time I have heard the issue of this road being raised. The Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Griffin, has raised it with me many times. It is a serious problem and I recognise that the project is important to the Minister of State, as well as to Deputies Danny and Michael Healy-Rae, Martin Ferris and all other representatives in County Kerry. I will address the issue...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Network (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: I am glad that the Deputy acknowledged the presence of the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Brendan Griffin. It was very gracious of him to do so. I am also glad that he has acknowledged that we are taking this project very seriously. Kerry County Council selected the route in 2004. However, following a review, the scheme was revised several...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Road Network (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: The Deputy can be absolutely assured that I have taken his contribution seriously. The capital plan, as it stands, does not make provision for the N22, Farranfore to Killarney, scheme, but the extra funding provided in the capital plan review will enable TII to develop a pipeline of potential future projects. This project will be considered for development in the post-2022 period....
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: As the Deputy is aware, the National Transport Authority's, NTA, transport strategy for the greater Dublin area 2016-2035 proposes implementation of the overall DART expansion programme. In the Government’s budgetary framework for capital investment, Building on Recovery: Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2016-2021, funding was allocated to progress a number of key...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: Deputy Ryan was a little bit histrionic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: During that 20 years-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: -----I believe the Deputy was in government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He was in government for that period of time. I do not know when this particular project was cancelled but I think the DART underground was deferred by the previous Government in November 2010.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Rail Network Expansion (15 Feb 2018)
Shane Ross: When you were not so busy deferring bankrupting the country, bankrupting the banks and propping up Brian Cowen and Bertie Ahern, which he did with alacrity, I do not know what you were doing about transport but we inherited a situation in transport from you guys which was an absolute and utter disaster. You get up here day in, day out wanting to spend money like water, as you did the time...