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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want to try to keep a structure so that they will not have any problem answering them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want to deal with the issue of rural transport first. We will then go back to the second part of Deputy Munster's question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: A number of other people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want Deputy Munster to listen to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Not at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: If the Deputy does not listen to me, the committee will go into private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The committee will now go into private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We are resuming in public session. We will deal with all the questions germane to the agenda for today and will then address all other questions. I will take Deputy O'Keeffe, who is Vice Chairman of the committee, and then Deputies Michael Collins, Éamon Ó Cuív and Danny Healy-Rae and Senator Humphreys.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is the Deputy asking for the service to commence earlier, to get people to work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: If it is helpful, the NTA's representatives have said that the NTA will pay the insurance on a monthly basis. That is what they are saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The gentleman the Deputy calls "Ross" has a title. Deputy Collins is a Deputy and Deputy Ross is a Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Out of respect, I am not asking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not call the Deputy "Collins".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy Collins must call a Minister by his proper title.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In fairness, we have to stick to the title of the office he holds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: To clarify, the NTA's proposal is for areas where there is no service at all. Is that correct? Its representatives are not talking about existing issues separate from what the NTA is proposing. This proposal is for areas where there are no services, no taxis, no hackneys, nothing. That is what we are talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: In fairness, the proposal is a pilot. The facts are that two services are being proposed in each of the 17 areas. It is a start.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, there would be a community service and a private service. In fairness, the Deputy can make any points he wants but he must deal with facts.