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Priority Questions: Public Services Card (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: The correspondence between the Department and the RSA on this matter shows total confusion and disorganisation. From the documents released under freedom of information provisions, it would appear the RSA believed it was operating on instructions from the Department that PSCs were indeed to be made mandatory. It seems clear from the freedom of information documents that the law was broken...

Priority Questions: Public Services Card (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: I asked the Minister who was responsible for the theory test but the RSA is contradicting him. The authority is saying it was instructed that it was to be mandatory and the Minister is saying otherwise. We would like some clarity as to exactly who misunderstood whom in this case.

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has had with the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding increases in resources for the Garda traffic corps in particular increases in personnel; the plans to increase personnel and resources for the traffic corps for budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25537/18]

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: According to a reply I received to a parliamentary question which I put to the Minister for Justice and Equality last month, the figure for the Garda traffic corps at the end of February was 635 members. That is just over half what the figure was ten years ago, when there were 1,200 members of the traffic corps. In 2016, the number was 681. The Minister said in his response that he was...

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: Sometimes I despair at the Minister's responses. He is living in fantasy land. I have given figures which prove that the number is just over half what it was ten years ago. The Minister has introduced two road traffic Bills and my party has supported both. However, on each occasion I raised the need for an increase in the Garda traffic corps. Each time the Minister was asked about it he...

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Minister was assured of that last September. That is my point.

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Minister was assured of that last September and nothing happened.

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: They are less than what they were 12 months ago and the Minister is saying he has received assurances. Are they the same assurances he got last September?

Priority Questions: Road Safety Strategy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Minister for Justice and Equality is making an eejit of the Minister. They are the same assurances that were not delivered.

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: 43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impediments which exist to the regulation of rickshaws in view of the fact that most other European states have regulated their use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25253/18]

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: What are the impediments to regulating rickshaws, given that most other European cities have regulations?

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: I have said previously that rickshaws constitute a novel way of travelling that tourists enjoy. They are another transport option for many people, and the service provides around 1,000 jobs. There are problems with rickshaws but nothing that cannot be solved through regulation. The lack of regulation is the main reason for the problems. I have been calling on the Minister to regulate...

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Minister does that regularly.

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: That amendment was made in 2016.

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: The Minister has done nothing.

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: There is an onus on the Minister to regulate. I have read a couple of the reports that have been compiled. They contain every single excuse under the sun. That is why I said the Minister is seeking to take the easy option. He is talking as if this is an impossible task, suggesting that we could never regulate the industry. Here is an example of what is possible. Rickshaws are regulated...

Other Questions: Transport Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: Other countries are able to regulate rickshaws.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options his Department is considering to manage traffic capacity issues on the M50; if the introduction of additional tolling is the preferred option; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25252/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend section 15 of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 to make it mandatory for holders of small public service vehicle licences to nominate a person to inherit their licence in the event of the death of the licenceholder; the other options that would ensure that small public service vehicle licences will be inherited in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (12 Jun 2018)

Imelda Munster: 715. To ask the Minister for Health if a task force was set up by the HSE or his Department to examine individualised funding for persons with disabilities, including intellectual disabilities; if so, if it was completed; the decision made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24808/18]