Results 4,121-4,140 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. I was at one of the depots recently. I cannot remember the exact figure, but I think the manager said that people of 68 different nationalities are driving our Dublin buses. That is all to the good. As the Deputy said, getting drivers has been our biggest problem. This is also the case for mechanics. There is a real shortage of mechanics. We need the figures...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I agree with the sentiments expressed by the Deputy. I talked to the management of Dublin Bus after the event and I have a sense that they had fairly good information. They closely monitored what was happening, and because there were so many buses around the city drivers were able to report in and share information. There are very extensive cameras on all our buses, so it is not as if...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: It will be one of the things coming out of that.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I will give an experience of where I saw it happening. I have been in the national emergency control centre. Wherever we need to go into that, we obviously will. I will give a more local example with which the Deputy is bound to be familiar and it was interesting. I was in Midleton after the flooding and visited the fire station, which was used as a control centre. I spent an hour or so...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. The investment in Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick is vital. The national planning framework calls for better balanced regional development. Look at each of those cities. In Waterford, we are moving the train station and building a new bridge. In Limerick, we are reopening the Shannon-Foynes line. We have a great deal of work to do in Galway - the Oranmore...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: When European funding was available, we deliberately submitted the Cork metropolitan rail project because we wanted to signify its importance.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: The first thing that needs to be done is the twin track from Midleton into Kent.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: A large amount of signalling work needs to be done. The Chair is aware of the importance of that work. The other key initial development has to do with being able to run through Kent Station. The platform is there-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I will answer the question now. A new passing platform is needed at Kent Station. That element will be up and running in 2026. Funding for it will amount to approximately €185 million. The stations will follow. In my mind, it will not be long after. I attended the opening of a DART station the other day. Strangely, stations are not as complex or difficult as some of the...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: -----dock activity. There are some difficult aspects to that, though.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: Yes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I am happy to do so. As I said to the Deputy, publicly in the Dáil and elsewhere, I am absolutely committed. The priority needs to be on bypasses around the country, such as Castlemartyr and Killeagh, in places that are choked with through traffic. That is the first priority. To be honest, from my side, the funding is provided there. I am just as keen as the Deputy to get that...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I am very keen to see it go as fast as it can. I will say one thing in terms of the issues of flooding, design of roads and so on. It can bring complexities. We might look at what happened on the Dunkettle roundabout. That took quite a long time because it was dealing with an area that historically floods. My understanding with Castlemartyr is that someone would obviously take one side,...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy. There are so many projects at which we need to look. Investing in roads that improve towns and bring bypasses will really bring benefit. I can give two examples. My Department will be directing funding at a local road across Garryvoe that will connect the university with the main national road to Dublin. That is an example of a project that brings real strategic...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I do not like delay. Time costs money and, therefore, it is better to do things quickly. There has been a strategic shift, however. We have a programme for Government, which is allocating 2:1 in favour of public transport versus roads and 10% of the budget to active travel. I would argue the case for that is because the public transport has been underinvested in. I will go back to what...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: That is the public spending code.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: I am equally frustrated.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: There is a significant review. The Department of public expenditure and reform realises the situation. Some of it is the result of the financial crash. We have created an elaborate gate system through which people have to go for the likes of the children's hospital. Someone said to me that going from idea to completion takes many different permissions. The situation is overly elaborate...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Service 2023
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (28 Nov 2023) Eamon Ryan: It is, and it needs to happen quicker.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (23 Nov 2023)
Eamon Ryan: The information is set out as follows: www.simi.ie/en/motorstats/recommended-price-guide.