Results 381-400 of 4,042 for speaker:Cormac Devlin

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: My observation to Mr. Moynes is to say that between the HEA and the Department there seems to be a kind of attitude of, "It was not us". Forgetting the new legislation of 2022, there is a serious failing between the two organisations given that there is a litany of reports from 2015 onwards. It seems that the Department funds the HEA. The HEA funds universities. This particular university...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2022: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: No.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to Russia's continued air and missile attacks against Ukraine's civilians and civilian and critical infrastructure, including the recent intensified targeting of the energy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20574/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on what can be done to intensify the provision of humanitarian and civil protection assistance to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20575/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We all recognise the importance of the early learning sector. The St. Nicholas Montessori College in Dún Laoghaire told its staff and students last month that it is due to close. The St. Nicholas Montessori College had a very long and proud history of education in this sector and was one of the leading colleges in the country. Obviously this decision has taken staff and students, and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the NTA representatives back. I thank them very much for their engagement and for the briefing material they supplied. I will focus on something we raised when they were here last year, namely, real-time information, which the NTA addressed in its annual report. It calls them disappearing buses; I call them phantom buses. Some fees have been levied at some of the operators, in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate why Ms Graham does not want to focus on one operator, but the area where I live has quite a high level of the routes that Go-Ahead operates so she will forgive me saying that I receive many complaints about that particular operator. When I raised it last year, the reason given was Covid. I understand it is now recruitment issues. I appreciate that is a real issue right across...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: What is the timeframe after the NTA meets them? Last year fines were applied and so forth. How often do those meetings take place and are they on the basis of the level of complaints? Mr. Ryan also wishes to respond. Will the witnesses forward a note on the levels of fines being issued, especially around route 63? I could name a whole host of routes, but I will not as I have limited...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms Graham. I have three minutes left. Mr. Ryan might send on a note on that. We did not get to him. I asked a parliamentary question on the Aircoach route 702 a few months ago. My understanding was that Aircoach would operate a 24-hour service from the airport - it does not matter whether it is once or twice an hour - but it has become a 6 a.m. to 8 p.m route. Passenger...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Therefore, a service provider can tell the NTA initially that it will have a longer service, and then reduce it after a few years of operating the service. Is the NTA not concerned that from an international airport, we do not have a multitude of possibilities for the public to use public transport?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: The airport is not, yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Graham can see where I am coming from. A provider applied for a licence to operate a service. It got the licence and then, since the Covid-19 pandemic, reduced the level of service. It did not return to the level it was once at, and then it disappeared. Is that not of concern to the NTA? Would it not explore putting on another service if another application is made? I do not know...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Absolutely, it would be much longer.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: It is also a convoluted service. I just feel that-----

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 9 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19817/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under National Strategic Outcome 7 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19816/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Staff (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm, in tabular form, the number of staff or contractors and their grades in his Department assigned to the active travel and sustainable mobility section of the transport investment and public transport policy division on1 January 2023, 1 January 2024 and 1 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Directives (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the transposition of the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages into Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19994/24]