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Port Development. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I am not disputing the success of the economy.

Port Development. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister of State has been proactive in commissioning reports, but he has not been proactive in making decisions. Will the Minister of State make a strategic decision? Will he give strategic direction to the ports? Will he outline where he thinks capacity should be provided? Will he ensure capacity is provided in a way that could integrate with our rail freight policy, if we had a...

Energy Resources. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister can show his concern for the environment by taking one simple action. He must stop the sale by CIE, which it is currently undertaking, of the freight infrastructure and all the equipment associated with the Guinness contract. It is being sold off because CIE failed to secure the contract. I suspect it did not try very hard. It is now selling off the capacity that would allow...

Energy Resources. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister keeps telling me that is the case but I can give him chapter and verse on the reality of the situation. He is sitting back and allowing this to happen. We will never be able to bring this equipment back. It may not be economically viable to CIE but it may be so to somebody else. The economics are changing daily given the increasing cost of oil and in terms of the fees we will...

Energy Resources. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Will the Minister answer the question? Will he stop the sale of this equipment?

Energy Resources. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Will the Minister say whether he will stop the sale of the equipment?

Energy Resources. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: However, CIE is the regulator and while it does not want the equipment, it does not want anybody else to have it either.

Energy Resources. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I can give the Minister chapter and verse on that.

Dublin Transport Authority. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Purcell, issued a report yesterday on integrated ticketing. The cost to the taxpayer of this issue has been around €9 million so far, and it has been almost as many years in the making. We have nothing to show for all this, not even a smart card, except that the cost is rising on a daily basis. The Comptroller and Auditor General did not blame the...

Dublin Transport Authority. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Bad leadership.

Dublin Transport Authority. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Is the Minister answering the question on integrated ticketing or the Dublin transportation authority?

Dublin Transport Authority. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I was using integrated ticketing as an example of the need for a co-ordinating body.

Dublin Transport Authority. (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is delivering promises, not action.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Transport if, following his letter to the local authorities requesting a review of existing speed limits, he is now satisfied that all local authorities have carried out this review and if he can confirm that appropriate by-laws are, or have been, put in place on foot of that review. [29685/06]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (28 Sep 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Transport following his letter to the local authorities about speed limits, if all special speed limits introduced prior to and post metrification have been made in accordance with the relevant by-laws. [29684/06]

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: When was the money lodged?

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: My colleague, Deputy Bruton, dealt with a variety of issues, including the misspending of public money. I shall deal solely with transport issues, a field that is strewn with over-spending, misspending, opportunity costs, from the bus lanes on which more than €100 million has been spent, many of which are devoid of buses, the Dublin Port tunnel project which is coming in at probably the...

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: ——while at the same time expecting the impossible of those charged with ensuring a viable ticketing system. Will the Minister please stop shaking his head? This failure to make a decision, the failure of leadership, the failure to govern is at the root of this total waste of public money.

Public Expenditure: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Notwithstanding the Minister's fence sitting, there are also serious questions to be asked about the refusal of Dublin Bus to participate and co-operate in the implementation of a Government decision. No matter what the excuses and irrespective of the motivation which may well have been bus users' interests, the Government as a whole cannot allow this blatant rejection and ignoring of a...

Written Answers — Garda Traffic Corps: Garda Traffic Corps (3 Oct 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on making the traffic corps a dedicated force whose duties are strictly in relation to traffic law enforcement; if so, when same will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30594/06]