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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Would Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, not change the design or the operation or any other characteristics of the Dunkettle roundabout?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If Dunkettle is freeflow and no longer a bottleneck, then the N8 option is an easier route. There would be no need for the northern corridor and the Dunkettle upgrade could be used as planned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: When I was coming out of Cork recently at 8.30 a.m., there was a three-mile tailback to those pharmaceutical plants in Little Island.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Has an analysis been done as to what the increased level of traffic will be if the Dunkettle interchange goes ahead as planned? What increased volume of traffic is expected on the southern ring road coming up to the Kinsale Road roundabout and those areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How does upgrading a freeflow road system lead to fewer cars?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How does it lead to fewer cars?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Where is the planned park-and-ride for traffic from the east on the N25?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have a vested interest because we had a family farm in Glounthaune, meaning I know the area. How big an area would one need for a park-and-ride facility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It is, and pretty too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: As part of the stage 1 plans, has the TII details of what the public transport upgrade will be to carry that park-and-ride traffic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That is not in stage 1 or in the design of the Dunkettle upgrade. That is purely a road scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How will cyclists traverse north-south and east-west? There is no cycling in the Jack Lynch tunnel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: How will that cross the River Lee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is the same mistake that happened in Dublin being made in Cork where there is no public transport happening and we are investing everything in roads? We say we want to reduce the number of cars and stop sprawl development. Even before the problems last Monday, the light rail for Cork was planned with a 20-year timeframe. This project, if it goes ahead, will have a five-year timeframe. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I just see an endpoint with the Dunkettle interchange as a freeflow. Like we made the Red Cow roundabout and other M50 roads freeflow, we thought that it would solve the problem but, lo and behold, it did not because the volume of traffic always increases to meet the available road demand. We then have to have another choice about widening the ring road. We will be widening everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We will concentrate on Cork rather than Dublin. We have had discussions previously where we are widening all the approach roads to the M50.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What Mr. Matthews is saying is in some ways contrary to what we have heard. As I recall, representatives of Analysys Mason, a firm of international consultants, said when they were before us they had never seen any place like Ireland because of the ribbon development along roads. If I recall correctly, they concluded in their work on the national broadband plan that rural Ireland could not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I believe they referred to topography where there is a strip of houses along a road. Even if there is a mast on a high point, such as at a local school, church or barn, it is very difficult to cover every house and the only way one can be certain of doing so is by looping from house to house. I suppose the representatives were not saying it could not be done with house-to-house fixed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What they are saying is that it is very difficult to cover every house.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The technicalities of this are difficult. When we refer to radio, it is the radio wave spectrum. Fixed wireless is the same thing. Either term - wireless or radio wave - can be used. It is all on the invisible microwave spectrum. Mr. List-Petersen said that the next likely development is in the 700 MHz spectrum but he did not finish the point. I presume it was approximately 2 GHz.