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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure, including the provision of bus services. As the Deputy may be aware, BusConnects is a transformative programme of investment in the bus system, providing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally and for the scheduling and timetabling of these services in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure, including the provision of bus services. As the Deputy may be aware, BusConnects is a transformative programme of investment in the bus system, providing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally and for the scheduling and timetabling of these services in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure, including the provision of bus stops/shelters nationally. There is a commitment under the Programme for Government to ensure that public transport...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), including light rail. Noting the NTA's responsibility in the development of public transport infrastructure...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure, including the provision of bus services. As the Deputy may be aware, BusConnects is a transformative programme of investment in the bus system, providing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As the Deputy may be aware, as Minister for Transport I have responsibility for policy and overall funding of public transport in Ireland, including in relation to the rail network. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for the planning and development of public transport infrastructure in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA). The NTA Greater Dublin Area Transport...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to Active Travel. Funding is administered through the National Transport Authority (NTA), who, in partnership with local authorities, have responsibility for the selection and development of specific projects in each local authority area. Noting the role of the NTA in the matter, I have referred...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The matter raised in relation to funding provided for staffing in Bus Éireann is an operational matter for the company. I have, therefore, referred the Deputy's question to Bus Éireann for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. The matter raised in relation to funding provided for staffing in Dublin Bus is an operational matter for the company. I have, therefore, referred the Deputy's question to Dublin Bus for direct reply....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I am responsible for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in day-to-day operational matters of public transport operators, including those related to the operation of commercial bus services, their fare structures, or the acceptance of free travel passes. Further, the National Transport Authority (NTA) has no direct...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for promoting the development of integrated, accessible public transport networks and infrastructure. The NTA works with the relevant public transport operators, for example Irish Rail, who has responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the operation and management of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (18 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport; however, I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of public transport. Further, Bus Éireann's Expressway services are commercial bus services and responsibility for the operation of the service is a matter for the company. I have, therefore, referred the Deputy's...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (17 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 186 and 187 together. The Irish Aviation Authority ("the IAA") is the designated National Enforcement Body for Regulation (EC) 261 of 2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights ("EU 261"). The IAA investigates alleged breaches of this Regulation...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Córas Iompair Éireann (17 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 188, 208, 209, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227 and 258 together. As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport in Ireland. Issues in relation to Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) pension schemes are primarily a matter for the trustees of the pension schemes, the CIÉ Group and their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Protected Disclosures (17 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 189 and 190 together. I propose to take PQs 31806/25 and 31807/25 together. The EU Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law was adopted on 23 October 2019 and sets minimum standards for the protection of whistleblowers across the EU. This Directive was transposed by the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Protected Disclosures (17 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: Regulation (EU) 376/2014 (Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the reporting, analysis and follow-up of occurrences in civil aviation aims to improve aviation safety by ensuring that relevant safety information relating to civil aviation is reported, collected, stored, protected, exchanged, disseminated and analysed. The sole objective...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (17 Jun 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: Work on the National Policy Framework for Unmanned Aircraft Systems is well advanced. Many of the issues addressed by the Policy Framework fall directly within the remit of the Department of Transport, while other issues will cross-over into areas of responsibility of other Government Departments and agencies. Given its cross-sectoral nature, the Policy Framework will be subject to government...