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Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. No 477 of 2006) this is a matter for the Road Safety Authority.

Written Answers — Transport 21: Transport 21 (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: I refer the Deputy to my reply to similar Question No. 7 of today's date.

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: As set out in Transport 21 and the National Development Plan, the next augmentation of commuter rail services will be the Kildare Route Project which entails the quadrupling of a critical section of track between Cherry Orchard and Hazelhatch on the Heuston to Kildare line. New or relocated stations have already been opened at Adamstown in 2007, Fonthill and Park West in 2008 and an expanded...

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: That is not correct. Ministers are not supposed to get involved in industrial relations, IR, issues within Departments. The report was presented to and was approved by the Government. It was considered that the best and most effective way of doing this was to transfer responsibility for it to the RSA. That was agreed by Government. I also secured funding through an increase in fees and...

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is being rather unfair. I was talking about the administration of this system. The Deputy is conveying the impression that no testing is taking place or there is a lack of testing.

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: That would be unfair. It is illegal for somebody to retrospectively change vehicle testing certificates. If the Deputy has knowledge of that-----

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: If he has personal knowledge of that, he should report it to the Garda or to me, and I will report it.

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy should give me the details.

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: Those are cases that were detected. Deputy O'Dowd is making the case that this is still happening-----

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The RSA vehicle inspectorate participated in 225 roadside checks in 2008, an increase of more than 100% on 2007. Roadside checks were completed on 3,252 vehicles. These checks revealed that 1,350 of the vehicles had some defects. The RSA vehicle inspectorate made 280 vehicle testing network test centre visits in 2008 to ensure compliance with commercial vehicle test centre standards and...

Road Safety. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The RSA is very diligent in ensuring both the roadside testing and the visits to centres continue.

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6, 12 and 16 together. The report of the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes recommended full year savings of €127 million in my Department's current expenditure provision. The proposed expenditure reductions included a saving of €2.9 million on administrative expenditure, pay and non-pay; a reduction of €36.2 million on...

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: It is obvious Deputy Bannon did not listen to my initial reply. I was asked specifically about the recommendations and I outlined the nature sof those recommendations. I concluded by stating that discussions were taking place, that the matter had been referred to the committee and that it would be inappropriate for me to comment on any specific savings that might happen in advance of the...

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: This is typical of what we are obliged to deal with.

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The Government is continually castigated by the Opposition for not taking the necessary actions to restore the economy. For the past five to ten years we have been criticised in respect of all the money we spent, etc. It is being stated now that the circumstances in which we currently find ourselves reflect the way that money was spent.

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: That is despite the fact that the Opposition called on us to spend even more money. No area of Government expenditure will escape cuts or will not have changes made to it. The Department of Transport will be no more exempt than any other Department. In the context of what Deputy Broughan said, I will try to ensure that the commitment contained in the renewed programme for Government in...

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: That is what Deloitte-----

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: I am not.

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy should allow me to answer the question.

Departmental Expenditure. (5 Nov 2009)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy was seeking 300 buses for Dublin Bus.