Results 19,181-19,200 of 26,155 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: They are never straightforward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Currently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a reserved function.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a good question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is Love 30's area. Has it looked at that? Individual local authorities are doing 30 km/h zones but could they decide to make all urban and built-up areas 30 km/h zones by default and put that to the councillors as a reserved decision? Can that be done? Has Love 30 looked at that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We might follow up on that with the Department and maybe the organisations before us. It is a good question. You do not necessarily always have to build a new plan if the old one can basically be remodelled.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dr. D'Arcy had not concluded her response, but in one sense pedestrian crossings had the impact of reducing the number of cars on the road. By definition, once there were fewer cars, they were getting through more easily. There was a disincentive to travel by car because drivers were hitting lights all the time. That might be a layman's view, but was that one feature of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Dr. D'Arcy. We have concluded our deliberations. I thank Mr. Waide, CEO, Road Safety Authority and his colleague, Mr. Rowland, director of road safety, research and driver education. I particularly thank Ms Muireann O'Dea and Ms Joan Swift from Love 30, and Dr. Lorraine D'Arcy from Technological University Dublin. Following on from this meeting, we will write to the Department in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We hope that as part of that RSA conference there will be a discussion on the implementation plan of the working group.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship courses available both nationally and in Limerick city and county in 2022; and the work ongoing to support older persons or persons changing careers in accessing apprenticeships. [12708/22]
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are in unprecedented times. We have gone from a Covid crisis into a Ukrainian crisis. Clearly, we have to support the people of Ukraine, but there are issues that we must deal with domestically. We learnt a lot from the pandemic. The measures we bring in must be quick, decisive and very much sectorally-based, and they must take away uncertainty. What we are facing at the moment is...
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am sharing time with Deputy Higgins. I do not know if there are other Government Members-----
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want to contribute to this debate because a significant number of hauliers and businesses have contacted me in my role as a Deputy representing Limerick City, as they have many other Deputies. They are under enormous pressure. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is well aware of that. I have studied the measures he has brought in. There are restrictions under the energy directive in Europe....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Road Traffic and Roads Bill should really include e-bikes and e-scooters. We will have to rename it. From Bird, I welcome Ms Victoria Springthorpe, head of policy for the UK and Ireland, and Mr. James Padden, general manager for the UK and Ireland. From Spin, I welcome Mr. Brit Moller, head of public policy. From Zipp Mobility, I welcome Mr. Will O'Brien, vice president for growth and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Springthorpe has set a very good example of staying within the time limit. We will expect everyone else to follow suit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Moller for keeping to the time. I call Mr. O'Brien who has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. O'Brien. I call Mr. Stevenson who has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Stevenson. We will proceed to members. We have approximately 45 minutes remaining, so I propose that each member has five minutes. I suggest that two minutes, at most, be used for questioning to allow three minutes for the witnesses from the representative bodies to answer. I ask for key pinpoint questions to be asked that will allow us to go to the representatives of all the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will go to people in the order in which they spoke initially. I call Ms Springthorpe from Bird.