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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Member from the Upper House. Does the Chairman know whether St. Brigid's and Owenacurra have written to the health committee? Deputy Higgins has made a good point there. As I said, I believe the health committee should be the first one to examine this and then, as Deputy Buckley said, if it is not examined, it can come to us. I still stand by what I said earlier, that if the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Deputy Higgins had made a sensible suggestion. I know we have had a long discussion on this and I am conscious that there is a third petition to examine. We should defer the matter until we know what the Joint Committee on Health is doing. Let us come back to it at our next meeting.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (3 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Let it not be said that I never agree with Senator Craughwell because I totally agree with his suggestion. In fairness to Senator Murphy, this committee certainly wants to hear about the concerns of constituents and their local centres. There is no question about that. To the point that Deputy Higgins made earlier, we also must be cognisant of our work and duplication with other...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: He would get away with it.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I join my colleagues in extending my condolences to the family of Noel Treacy, who, as a Member of this House, represented Galway East for almost 30 years. In my time knowing Noel and campaigning with him, I was always amazed by his ability with names and his connection with people up and down the country. He will be fondly remembered in this Chamber by all people of all parties and none....

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 29. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4810/22]

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. It is good to have the engagement today. My colleague, Deputy McAuliffe, had requested an engagement with the NTA specifically on MetroLink. As he will engage on that in a little while, I will not refer to it myself. I welcome the fact that the NTA has given us an update on the DART+ coastal south as well as the DART+ tunnel and the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I accept that there are limited options.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: That is fine. I know it is at an early stage. I welcome the update on BusConnects, albeit limited. There are several other routes and the network of spines to be rolled out. I would welcome an update on when routes 13 and 15 are proposed to be implemented and, equally, some information on the E spine. In the documentation provided to the committee it was mentioned that a total of 12...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: That is the route 13. In effect, 15 has become 13.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Creegan for that clarity. I will turn to more localised issues in terms of the complaints procedure. Probably all Deputies on this committee are aware that there is quite a volume of complaints specifically about some of the private operators. In my case, the issue relates to Go-Ahead. I am aware of relentless and continuous complaints about bus services, between...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I will just cut across Mr. Gaston there. I am sorry, but this is not isolated to Covid. This is pre-Covid and it has continued. I am familiar with the 63 route. We could take this offline, but I can send Mr. Gaston a slew of complaints I have received specifically in respect of that route. The reason I raise the matter is because I and my constituents have constantly been sent the same...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: But it has a lot fewer routes.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am sorry, but I have limited time on this. I just want to say to Mr. Gaston that this is not due to traffic, because the bus never appears. The bus is not in traffic. The bus never runs. The 7.15 bus on the 63 route does not appear. I have corresponded with the NTA and the response is not good. The response to constituents is even worse. At times, they do not get responses. I am...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Could Ms Graham give a flavour of what kind of numbers we are talking about?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Does Ms Graham have actual figures? Are there numbers?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: That seems-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I ask Ms Graham to furnish the information to the committee, perhaps with actual numbers. I appreciate they are calculated per 100,000. It would be good to get the raw numbers. Several internal reviews were done and with the exception of July 2020 when it was done by McCann FitzGerald and November 2021 when it was done by KPMG, a total of 19 other internal reports were conducted by RSM....

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: By the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Cormac Devlin: By the NTA.