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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: I would like a clarification. It has been mentioned that new contracts will be awarded. In the future will it be compulsory for all buses to be wheelchair accessible? Is there a commencement date for this? Let us say a bus company is awarded a public contract but its buses are not wheelchair accessible. When will the situation change for the company? If the company applies for a new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: If Iarnród Éireann goes ahead and introduces unmanned stations then customers requiring assistance will depend on a member of staff being on the train. Does Ms Graham perceive that situation being problematic?

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: Some manners, please. In 1994, an agreement was reached between the CIÉ employees and the company to amalgamate five pension schemes, thereby allowing it to remove a potential €73 million pension deficit from its book. In return, employees were given certain assurances, the first of which was that the board of CIÉ would guarantee the solvency of the pension schemes each...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Minister completely ignored the question. It boils down to the fact that the Government has allowed CIÉ to show blatant disregard for a ministerial order. The issue was raised today in the Committee of Public Accounts by my colleague, Deputy Cullinane. The Comptroller and Auditor General said this was a statutory, rather than a private, pension scheme. There are legislation and...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: A statutory order was ignored by CIÉ.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Government has ignored it for the past eight years.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: The programme for Government on page 38 makes a commitment to bring next generation broadband to every house and business in the country by 2020. With yesterday's news that Eir has withdrawn from the tendering process leaving only one bidder, what is the future of the whole tender? Ireland could have been a world leader in telecommunications, but we have had a chain of disasters starting...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: Now that the State has lost control with the Minister admitting that the price is not set-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: -----what will happen to more than 500,000 people under the broadband plan without effective connection?

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: What price control is in place now?

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Data Protection Bill 2018 was published last week, when, yet again, there was another patient data breach at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Four pages from a consultant's report were found on the street, with the names and personal details, medical conditions and treatments of 18 patients. This is the third patient data breach in as many years. Will the Taoiseach instruct...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (6 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: 569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schools that qualify for the school meals scheme under the DEIS and non-DEIS criteria respectively, by county. [6035/18]

Extreme Weather (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: First Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: The aim of the Bill is to provide for the safety of employees during certain red alert severe weather warnings issued by Met Éireann, to enhance public safety and to ensure the safety of rescue service personnel during such a severe weather warning. In the immediate aftermath of Storm Ophelia, the Taoiseach rightly acknowledged that there was significant confusion regarding what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: I apologise for being late. I had hoped to speak to Ms Murray as well. I welcome Mr. Moran, who spoke of inequality. People who require wheelchair access are denied it on a daily basis because prior notice is required. When Bus Éireann's chief executive officer appeared before the committee, I asked how many times people requiring disability access were let down in 2017. Bearing in...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: In Rebuilding Ireland the housing assistance payment, HAP, was lauded as the be-all and end-all that would help to resolve the housing crisis by pushing people into private rented accommodation. Clearly the scheme is not working and one of the reasons it is not working is it is weighted in favour of landlords. Consider a situation where a sitting tenant of five years on a moderate fixed...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: The mechanisms are not in place to protect tenants.

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: I move amendment No. 1:To insert the following after “calls on the Government to”: “— reinstate the Specific Improvement Grants to local authorities this year; — prioritise, with their partners in the confidence and supply agreement, the funding of local and regional roads in Budget 2019, to ensure that the commitment made under the Programme for a...

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: In 2016, I said that the Government's policy would weaken our regional and local road network.

Roads Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2018)

Imelda Munster: That was when the Minister, Deputy Ross, announced a measly €25 million in additional funding for maintenance and repair. I told the House that the Minister's allocation would ensure that our roads continued to deteriorate after almost a decade of neglect. I said this was another example of the Minister's lack of interest in the maintenance and provision of infrastructure outside of...