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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I agree that we have raised this issue previously. In fact, back in February we received a reply that the tendering process had been progressed and was at an advanced stage with costings established, and that it was with the NTA for funding. Is there any need to outsource it to a company that will charge a seven-figure amount? When I was a student and after that, Iarnród Éireann...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: On many of the trains the facilities are there. There is a counter there.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: What is wrong with employing someone to sell a packet of crisps or some water? This suspension of services was only supposed to be a temporary measure during Covid. As we know, passenger numbers have increased. The service is continuing without any catering. It was not meant to be the new normal. I cannot understand how the mentality is fixed in their brains that they cannot directly...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Development (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: According to reports, the Government is set to hike public transport fees in this year's budget. We have heard that there is a €250 million funding gap and, as a result, commuters who are already crippled by rising rents and the cost of living are going to face fare hikes. I want the Minister to commit to retaining the reductions in public transport fares as part of this year's...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Development (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to ensure balanced regional development of transport infrastructure following the review of the national development plan. [51974/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Development (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: What does the Minister plan to do to address the critical infrastructural deficits that cripple Ireland's transport networks the length and breadth of the State? What is he doing to address the fact the national development plan includes concrete measure sonly for the Dublin MetroLink, a project that has been in the pipeline for decades? The feeling is that he is leaving rural Ireland...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Development (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: As the Minister said, it is about delivery at this stage. All the projects he mentioned are projects that were previously announced. The NDP review did not bring anything new to the table. It was also scant on any real substance or detail. Most of the projects were on the books for years and some of them, like MetroLink, for decades. MetroLink, on the books for decades, is the only...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: 92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on his Department's investigation into overflights of munitions to Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51973/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I am seeking an update on the Department's investigation into overflights of munitions to Israel? Will the Minister commit to upholding Irish law under the Air Navigation Act and to concrete actions to stop Israel transporting weaponry and munitions is it using to commit war crimes in Palestine?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I presume the Minister is talking about the draft report submitted in March this year.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: Will he commit to publishing it or give us a reason for refusing to publish it? Will we be here again in seven months or seven years demanding answers from a Government that is still not publishing it? There is a perception, of which I think the Minister is aware, that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been turning a blind eye to some of the most egregious crimes against humanity. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: -----these arms to travel through our airspace, that is, the same arms that are systematically targeting children.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I have raised this issue before. As the Minister has said this evening and on the previous occasion, under Irish air navigation law, the carriage of munitions is prohibited on any civil aircraft and failure to comply carries up to three years' imprisonment. The operators of these flights seem to think the Government has zero intention of upholding the law, unlike the Belgian Government,...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I thank the Chair for the opportunity to speak on the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025, which deals with the EPA licensing system. Like many other systems, it is facing many problems, not least the long delays for many applicants. This poses a threat to the protection of the environment and erects barriers to the delivery of critical infrastructure. Sinn Féin is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: I have a few questions arising from what was said. They are for Mr. Fox regarding his opening statement. He said there were investigations into allegations of illegal land spreading upstream, suspicious activities near Roskeen Bridge and illegal waste disposal. Are any prosecutions arising out of those three incidents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: No prosecutions will arise from them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pa Daly: Again regarding the investigation, are any studies under way, such as sediment sampling or macro invertebrate surveys? Are any other investigations like that going on?