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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Possibly and we encourage them to do so, where possible. The National Transport Authority oversees this sector, from a PSO perspective, and we urgently need to come up with options to increase capacity. Having extra capacity in 2022 is not really a solution. If people do what we are asking them to do in dealing with climate change, these problems will get much worse by 2022. Providing...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Is there a programme in place to ensure all PSO vehicles, including Bus Éireann buses, are wheelchair accessible?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have just one question remaining after dealing with this issue. What is the timeframe for achieving 100% coverage?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Five or ten years.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It will be at least ten years before there will be 100% coverage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Achieving wheelchair accessibility on public transport services will take ten years, given current funding levels. I appreciate that the National Transport Authority is not in charge of the funding it receives. My last question concerns Leap cards. How many are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Is it true that by the end of next year there will be more Leap cards in existence than people living in the State?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: How and why could that happen? I do not have a Leap card.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Ms Graham is right, I have to get with the programme. I should have one.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am just wondering how there could be 4.3 million cards. How could there be more Leap cards than people in the State by the end of next year? Are people getting two and three cards?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Anyone lucky enough to receive an invitation to Mr. Gaston's home has free travel.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure it is not vast. What is the increased cost to the National Transport Authority of so many cards not being used?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Would it be better if everybody just had one card?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is fine. I thank the witnesses.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 18. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to alleviate overcrowding in Sligo University Hospital in which the figures recorded in September 2019 were the worst recorded for September since an organisation (details supplied) commenced keeping records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41230/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the large increase in the numbers waiting more than 18 months for an outpatient appointment in Sligo University Hospital since May 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41229/19]
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I said I was not voting for it.
- Financial Resolution No. 3: Stamp Duties - Section 126AA Bank Levy (8 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In facilitating this budget under the confidence and supply agreement, it was crystal clear to us that some measures did not give adequate cognisance to the impact on people. We will support Financial Resolutions Nos. 3 and 5, which we view as technical adjustments to, respectively, maintain the €150 million yield on the bank levy and fill a loophole so that companies being sold or...
- Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In supporting Financial Resolution No. 2, as my colleague has said, I want to raise a point in the context of coming from rural Ireland and the fact that mitigating circumstances exist for the dependency on fossil fuels in that area. Thought should be given in future legislation to those mitigating circumstances. I suggest that the Government is in breach of the National Oil Reserve...