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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Over roads.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Roads are bottom of the pile there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the relationship then between the core priorities and the hierarchy? How does the Department hope to go from one to the other?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that. I am trying to figure this out. Mr. Spratt has listed connectivity and all those. If a project is looked at under NIFTI, how does that connect with the hierarchy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Active travel is top. Then move down to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----then use of existing resources and, finally, roads.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We look forward to that document. There is no process between now and the document being presented by the Minister to Cabinet for further consultation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: When will the Department publish the report of the public consultation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: When that is published, how long before the document goes to Cabinet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: But there will be some gap.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is important. The e-scooter legislation is an issue we get a lot of queries on. We will write to Mr. Spratt to see where it is at in terms of publication and when he expects the Minister will taken it to Second and Committee Stages. That will involve the Whips but it is only to see what the intentions of the Minister are. The issue of wattage - 250 kW on the scooters versus 500 kW...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the question. I thank Mr. Spratt. In essence, with this mobility plan, delivery on the ground is through the local authority. Am I correct that is how the Department will deliver much of it? Would that be fair?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will the action owner in the main be the NTA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What has been the Department's engagement to date - I suppose that is through NTA - in the spending of €360 million at local authority level? What has been the feedback from the local authority engagement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Have all the local authorities engaged?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Quite a number of the local authorities have taken on extra staff through the active travel budget. Has the Department engagement with them directly or is that through the NTA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are they employees of the local authorities or the NTA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is their role in strategy or delivery, or both?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: It would be remiss of me not to mention school transport. It is a large element of our work, particularly in the months once the schools close and before the new school year starts. It involved expenditure of €220 million per annum pre-Covid. I will not refer to the period during Covid because the numbers were higher. That gave the context to me of the €360 million. It is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Deputy Ó Murchú.