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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry. I just want to get this right. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae is a good Kerryman and his accent is very clear and his point very straightforward. I would like us to get the answers to his questions, if we can, in a relaxed way. This is not a confrontation. It is a communication. Perhaps Mr. O'Reilly would like to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will see where we get once we have answered the ones he has posed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In that sense, the criteria are no different from those for a taxi or hackney driver. The key point of the case is that there is no service whatsoever in the areas we are talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is in the absence of any service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I have to bring in Deputy Ó Cuív as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: There are no hackneys there, that is the whole point. It is in areas where there are none. The proposal they are making, which is purely for us to consider and debate, is in respect of areas where there is no service at all, just in case the Deputy missed that point. I will hear the Deputy in a second. The population will be under 1,000 and the distance proposed would not be greater than...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We know that. I am trying to clarify everybody's point of view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I am trying to get everybody to express their views. We are not making any judgments; we are very happy to hear the different views.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is a requirement that new ones have to be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We must have them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is unacceptable that they would not be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: If it is helpful, over 200,000 of those who made trips with Rural Link needed assistance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We are speaking about a lot of people and there can be no exclusion. I am not stating that Deputy Ó Cuív is suggesting this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In any proposal, disability must be an absolute sine qua non.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is. There are quite a number of weekend services. I looked them all up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: There are also weekend and night-time services. The problem outlined in the report, which we will deal with next, is that services do not run late enough at night. They cease at approximately 11 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In County Kerry, there are 160 Rural Link services. The NTA will come before the committee shortly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The NTA will come before the committee shortly. I am very interested in what Deputy Ó Cuív is saying and perhaps he would like to circulate the information. I have no problem with our guests replying to the points raised but it is a new debate for us today on the issue. If the Deputy wants to put it in writing, we can ensure that he can come before the committee and address it....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Taxis and Rural Transport Programme: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Some Rural Links actually do.