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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Commencement of Legislation (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​Section 11 of the Road Traffic Act, 2014 was commenced on 26 November 2014 by Statutory Instrument number 536 of 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Signage (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​As Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme.  The planning, design and implementation of individual road projects is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), formerly the National Roads Authority (NRA) under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2015 in conjunction with the local...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Collection (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: An Interdepartmental Group has carried out a review of the current commercial motor tax regime and consulted with hauliers and other stakeholders.  The report is being submitted to me and to the Ministers for Finance and for the Environment, Community and Local Government, for joint consideration.  Once agreement is reached, I hope to announce a new,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: As Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. Issues relating to maintenance on the rail network are a matter for Iarnród Éireann in the first instance. Exchequer funds are made available each year for investment in railway safety, asset renewal and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government's Capital Plan will be published shortly.  This will include a major programme of public transport investment for the coming years covering all modes including rail. It is imperative that we invest in our transport system to ensure that we can meet growing demand and tackle congestion to support economic growth. It is also important that in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 158 and 159 together. My Department's recently published National Aviation Policy acknowledges the role played by the regional airports of Donegal, Ireland West Airport Knock, Kerry and Waterford as being important because of a level of international connectivity that they bring to a region for the tourism and business sectors. That...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 and 163 together. Tourism is contributing significantly to Ireland's economic recovery.  CSO overseas tourism figures for the first seven months of 2015 show that there were over 4.8 million overseas visits to Ireland, an increase of 12.2% on the same seven-month period of 2014. This growth in overseas visits has been accompanied by strong...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​The role of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to tourism lies primarily in the area of national policy.  The development of business tourism is an operational matter for the Boards and management of Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland.  Fáilte Ireland is responsible for the development of the business tourism sector.  Tourism Ireland is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourist Accommodation (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​According to Fáilte Ireland's most recent accommodation occupancy statistics, for January to June 2015, hotel room occupancy in Dublin stood at 72%, whereas hotel occupancy in the rest of Ireland was 59%.  Occupancy rates in the same period for other forms of accommodation were mostly higher in Dublin than in the rest of the country, although when the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The Government's Capital Plan will be published shortly.  This will include a major programme of road and public transport investment for the coming years. It is imperative that we invest in our transport system to ensure that we can meet growing demand and tackle congestion to support economic growth. It is also important that in planning our investment...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Data (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​Local authorities  are responsible for mapping and collating available collision data on regional and local roads. Where analysis shows that engineering measures may assist in reducing the collision risk at a particular location then any local authority which is not fully self funding in terms of roads (under the new Local Property Tax regime) may apply to my Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​My Department's Statement of Strategy sets out the actions being taken or planned to deliver an integrated transport network across all transport modes. The strategy sets out performance indicators to measure the achievements of these actions. My Department and I also constantly monitor our national transport facilities to ensure that, given the resources available, they are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft Landings (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: ​As stated in the response to Parliamentary Question Ref No.617 of 20th January 2015 the figure 55,405 was based on information provided by Shannon Airport Authority.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (23 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: Applications from airlines for munitions of war exemptions under Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order are received by my Department on a standard application form.   The Department requests that such applications are made at least 48 hours before the flight is due to take place. Airlines usually make applications weeks in advance of...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: I listened with great interest to what Deputy Niall Collins had to say earlier. He walked in here and treated us to some kind of stream of consciousness where he went through all the different motions of confidence that he could put down in relation to the Government.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: He talked about all the different things that had unfolded regarding the economy and said that he could put down a motion on any of these, but the reality is that he did not.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The reason Deputy Niall Collins did not do this is-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: -----that on every one of the claims he made in relation to the economy, two developments are apparent to most, although I acknowledge that so much more needs to be done.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: What is first apparent to most is that the very kind of recovery Fianna Fáil claimed was impossible and would never happen is now under way in our country.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Paschal Donohoe: The second point that is apparent to most is that-----