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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The question is in regard to the ones that are not taken up. Does the Department sit down proactively with the five that were raised?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I would love if Mr. Doyle was able to come back to me and say that these are the five pools, these are the problems, we are working with them and we will get them sorted out. There is a danger of the pools deteriorating and not being used. Is there a time span for sorting these out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I would and I am going to keep an eye on the five pools.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: To return to roads, which my colleague, Deputy Catherine Murphy, raised, the biggest spend in that budget is on roads and primarily the maintenance of roads, not new roads.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: How does the Department decided between rural and city balance?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: The local authorities identify the roads under their control for maintenance and put them forward to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Therefore, there is an even balance between the regions and the city. It is up to the local authorities to come forward to say what their programmes are and what needs to be repaired and the funding is there.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: How does the Department ensure fair balance? That is the question I started off with.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Mullaney for that clarification. I have a specific question on the tolls. How much was paid in respect of the PPP operational payments as compensation for toll income being less than anticipated? This was touched on and the Department did not have the figure. I am asking for the figure again. What was paid over? Mr. Mullaney made a comment that the traffic is now...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I called the figures compensation. Traffic guarantee payments is what they were called, is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: There were three systems. In the first one, the contractor bears all the risk.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: In the second one, the State bears the risk.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: It is shared risk.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: What of the third one?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Therefore, we have a nimble system where the State is reliant on an increase in traffic on our roads.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Could we have details of those three schemes and the payments made in compensation, or whatever wording the Department is using, sent to the Chairman and to us? I started off using the word "compensation". Could we have those, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: I have a specific question in relation to taxis. It arises from a representation I received but it is also general point as well and it relates to the decal symbol that one is obliged to display on a taxi. Taxi drivers seem to be obliged to display these 24 hours a day. According to the representations I have received, it has serious implications for their insurance. Could the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: There is that issue and the issue of whether the representation on the taxi committee is fair. I will come back separately on the latter issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Great. With all of these lovely documents, I could paper my room. I was elected first elected a public representative in 1999. I cannot tell Mr. Doyle how many public transport documents I have seen in my 17 years. Smarter Travel Galway is, I would say without exaggeration, the 15th document for Galway alone. We have massive congestion on our roads at peak times. Galway, in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (23 Feb 2017) Catherine Connolly: Mr. Doyle is correct. That is what they tell us. I have a completely different point of view. It is based on 17 years of going down a cul de sac in regard to an outer bypass with millions of euro spent on it. Then we go forward with a road. It is not an outer bypass; it is a ring-road. The public transport elements are tagged on to it. There is no paradigm shift here on the part of the...