Results 23,001-23,020 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he intends to take to ensure that fixed charge penalties may be applied to foreign drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21897/06]
- Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Question 284: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of supervised driving tests conducted in the last year for which figures are available. [21862/06]
- State Airports. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Tell the Minister, Deputy Brennan.
- State Airports. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister, Deputy Brennan, made that assumption.
- State Airports. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister, Deputy Brennan, promised it.
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept that, on the basis of these figures, his proposals to cut the waiting list will not work and will not reduce waiting times to ten weeks by 2007? Does he intend to end the provision for unaccompanied drivers? Why has the effect of this not been factored into the projections for the next few years? Is there not a serious problem with the IT system, contributing to the...
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: They will have an impact but will not reduce waiting times to ten weeks.
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: When will the IT system be replaced?
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Has the Minister any plans to do so?
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Is funding available for this year?
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Talk about passing the buck. The Minister is responsible for this. He should be able to answer a question rather than suggesting I table another one to see what the chief executive states.
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister has presided over the shambles that is driver testing for over two years. When I ask if funding is available for a new IT system, it is a little rich for him to state he will ask a chief executive appointed only a few weeks ago.
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The Minister has dodged the question as usual, passing it on to someone else.
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which he will reduce the waiting times for driving tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21883/06]
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: The figures the Minister gave are interesting. Has he factored in the signal he gave on what is likely to happen in the case of provisional drivers and the intention to end the unaccompanied rule? We would all welcome that move. We are probably the only country in Europe that allows learner drivers to drive unaccompanied. The new Bill provides for changes to that position. Has the Minister...
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Are we not to have a second round of supplementary questions?
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: It is standard practice for Priority Questions.
- Driving Tests. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, but there is a limit on contributions too which should be enforced.
- Dublin Transport Authority. (7 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Two days later.
- Written Answers — Driving Licences: Driving Licences (1 Jun 2006)
Róisín Shortall: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 25 May 2006, if a breakdown of the figures in the age categories provided is available by the numbers on their first, second, third, fourth, fifth and subsequent licenses; and if he will he provide it. [21515/06]