Results 17,321-17,340 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I would appreciate it if Mr. Meade could send that information to me because I have been looking for it for years. Does that take into account or record all those people who travel courtesy of the Department of Social Protection? Such travel is not free because Iarnród Éireann gets paid for it. Does Iarnród Éireann have a record of where all of the people with free...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Iarnród Eireann get full-cost recovery for those journeys from the Department of Social Protection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is that irrespective of how many journeys and the routes involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, in terms of the routes on which pass holders travel heavily, Iarnród Éireann does not really know how many people are using those routes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: When a passenger is using a free travel pass, that is recorded. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: On some services a ticket is not required.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What services do not require a ticket?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No, I am asking for what services there is no record of free travel passes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there a record, for example, for the DART service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They are counted. Does Iarnród Éireann have any data on the number of travellers on the inter-city routes? By the way, that is a total misnomer because they are actually inter-regional routes and the trains stop all over the place. Has the company any data for those routes, including Dublin to Cork, Dublin to Galway and so on, on the number of travellers who are, in fact, daily...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No. They could commute and pay for a ticket each time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but has Iarnród Éireann got good data on how many of its customers are commuters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If we take the example of people who take the train from Dublin to Athlone, could 50% or 60% of them be commuters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will be able to get that data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is critical information because it seems to me that the real growth in public transport use, particularly train use, is in commuter travel. It might be commuting halfway across this State, but it is still commuter travel. It is five days a week, up and down to work. I know somebody who commutes from Galway to Dublin to work. That is key because of what I said earlier about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: About 22 minutes on the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Getting out of Parkmore Estate takes an hour and a half on some evenings for many people in Galway. I checked here, and between 8 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., three rail services go from Athenry into Galway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Would Mr. Meade not think that it would be very attractive for people to commute as far as Athenry even if they left their cars there and travelled another 30 miles if there was a 15 or 20 minute service into Galway, as well as a matching service out of Galway in the evening? The time saving would be enormous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We are here as Members of Oireachtas Éireann. We are not here to discuss matters as is, because they are a disaster. We are here to plan for the future in major policy issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Defending everything all day here on an as is basis misses the point of this committee. What we are looking at is what could be.