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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (7 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The National Development Plan (NDP) provides €35 billion for transport over the next decade, the largest investment in transport in the history of the state, and will transform how we travel, connect communities and help us to halve our greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. It provides for significant investment in active travel, bus and rail infrastructure over the next ten years in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (7 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public and sustainable transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) is responsible for the development and implementation of public transport and active travel infrastructure, allocating the funding provided by my Department at project level and working to deliver these projects in conjunction...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (7 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 204 and 205 together. MetroLink is likely the largest ever public investment project in the history of the State. It faces imminent and important milestones in the coming months and these milestones will determine its progress in the coming years. Firstly, there is Government’s approval of the Preliminary Business Case and secondly there is the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (7 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to Active Travel and public transport infrastructure. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of the management of public bike schemes. Details regarding contracts, operation and expansion of existing and proposed bike schemes fall under the remit of the National Transport Authority...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (7 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport I have responsibility for overall policy and securing exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the operation and management of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: There should, and will, be a certain assessment. It is the right project and I have always said that. However, there will be questions asked in times of limited resources. A metro will, in all likelihood, be very expensive. The people of Limerick might ask how this will be balanced. That will be one of the challenges. However, my sense is that the political system has come around to the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I am due to be in Clondalkin at 4.30 p.m. or 4.45 p.m.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I should be able to do that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: This is where NIFTI comes in. NIFTI is concerned with recognising, minimising and reducing demanded travel, putting active travel first, and using existing resources first and it is central. I agree with the Deputy that we need to rethink and move away from a car dominated system we built over 50 years. It will be difficult to do but that is exactly what NIFTI is concerned with.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, they do. On a general point, Danny McCoy, the head of IBEC, made a speech a year and a half ago, which was seminal, but perhaps not noticed so much because it was given just before the election. He said, while our State has grown dramatically and has been hugely successful in employment and economic development, one of our difficulties of that was that the size of our State has not...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Sitting comfortably in Lesson Lane.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I must come back to the Chair on that. My understanding is that it went to Cabinet earlier in the year, but I will have to check that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is due to be brought to Cabinet before the end of the year.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, the Department must assess all projects on an ongoing basis.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: NIFTI is concerned with - as Deputy O'Rourke said, and I keep coming back to this point - the national planning framework. NIFTI complements that and is a perspective of what we want to do: balanced regional development; compact development; and low-carbon development. NIFTI is a continuation of that approach and it is connected to our climate plans, and regional and rural development...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Chair said earlier that in the end political decisions have to be made, which it is true. Political decisions have to be informed by the policy approach we want to take. NIFTI is complementary to, and a continuation of, the national planning framework, and that is at the centre of our strategic objectives.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I wish to make a clarification, as I have received a note from my officials, to avoid any trouble or difficulties. NIFTI does not have a specific bearing on investment decisions on projects currently proceeding through the project life cycle. That is the official answer. I was inaccurate and wish to correct the record. On the points raised by Deputy O'Rourke, I will stand by the belief...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: If the Deputy does not mind, I will ask him a question. How far does he cycle to the railway station?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: That is about 4 or 5 km, perhaps.