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Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (1 Jun 2004)

Séamus Brennan: Section 7 of the Road Transport Act 1932 prohibits the carrying on of a passenger road service without a licence. However, section 24 of the Transport Act 1958 provides that this does not apply to the State bus companies. Section 25 of the Transport Act 1958 then goes on to provide the State bus companies may not, without the consent of the Minister, initiate any passenger road service or...

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (1 Jun 2004)

Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 297 to 299 inclusive. The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 provided for the vesting of the three State airports at Dublin, Shannon and Cork in Aer Rianta and for the establishment of the latter as a normal commercial State owned company. Prior to the passing of the 1998 Act, Aer Rianta operated and managed the three airports on behalf of the...

Written Answers — Shannon Airport: Shannon Airport (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 315 and 333 together. Responsibility for Shannon Development rests with my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. She has been in contact with the board of that agency on its role in light of the forthcoming decentralisation of Enterprise Ireland to Shannon and the advent of the new autonomous Shannon Airport Authority....

Written Answers — Fógraíocht Ranna: Fógraíocht Ranna (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: Tá sé molta Ceisteanna Uimh. 317, 318 agus 319 a thógaint le chéile. Nuair a chuireann an Roinn seo fógra isteach i nuachtáin bíonn roinnt ceisteanna le plé. Ag tógail san áireamh an saghas duine a léann an nuachtán, scaipeadh an nuachtáin, agus na costaisí. Tar éis na ceisteanna seo a chuir san áireamh déantar cinneadh. Sé príomh aidhm na Roinne seo nuair a chuirtear...

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: I am informed by Irish Rail that weekend DART closures will continue between Pearse Station and Greystones until 31 July 2004, after which normal weekend services will resume between these stations. Irish Rail will then commence work on northside DART stations and weekend closures will take place from August until mid-2005 approximately. As the project reaches completion, some further weekend...

Written Answers — Schools of Motoring: Schools of Motoring (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: There is no funding available from my Department for the setting up of schools of motoring.

Written Answers — Parking Regulations: Parking Regulations (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: The Government road safety strategy 1998-2002 recommended that a system of penalty points should be introduced with the specific focus of tracking a range of motoring offences that have a direct impact on road safety. The Road Traffic Act 2002, which provides the legislative basis for the penalty points system, reflects that focus and the 69 offences identified as penalty point offences are...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: The orders the Deputy refers to in his question were made under Section 14 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950. The orders in question were made between 1988 and 1993, and relate to circular protected areas of 300 metres radius from the IAA's DVOR-DME equipment at Rowlestown west, County Dublin; Kilgarriff west, Charlestown, County Mayo, and Knockaun, Shannon, County Clare. Neither...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: As I indicated in my earlier reply of 27 April 2004 on this matter, I am not aware of any significant difference between the ERM report and Aer Rianta's consultation brochure of October 2002 in the context of the purpose for which each of those documents were produced. The consultation brochure was produced by Aer Rianta as part of the public information process associated with the...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: The matters to which the question relates are appropriate to Aer Rianta and its safety licensing authority, the Irish Aviation Authority.

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: I have checked the record of the relevant debate in Dáil Éireann and I can confirm that the comments attributed by the Deputy to my predecessor are essentially correct. My reply to the Deputy's earlier Question No. 636 of 27 April 2004 on this matter is not inconsistent with those comments.

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: When Environmental Resources Management, ERM, was preparing its report on public safety zones, it consulted with the local authorities in question a number of times. During those consultations, which took place over a period of about one year, ERM have advised that they used a number of different maps that were shown to the local authorities. ERM have advised that as the study was...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: The Road Traffic Acts provide for the direct application of speed limits to all roads. A broadly based working group that was established last year to review speed limit policies, against the backdrop of the adoption of metric values for such speed limits, have presented a comprehensive report that incorporates recommendations across a range of areas. The report is available on my...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: I have been advised by the Attorney General that the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2002 are open to challenge in the Courts on the grounds that they may be ultra vires. A legislative framework to address the overall regulatory questions arising from the development of in-car technologies, which would include mobile phones, is being...

Written Answers — Driving Instruction: Driving Instruction (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: There is no grant assistance available from my Department for driving instruction. Applicants for a heavy goods vehicle or a bus driving test who are unemployed for a continuous period of 12 months on the date of the application, and who are registered with FÁS, are not required to pay an application fee to undergo the driving test.

Written Answers — Aviation Arrangements: Aviation Arrangements (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: Officials from my Department met US officials in Washington DC on 4 and 5 May 2004 to explore the Ireland-US bilateral aviation arrangements in the context of progress on an EU-US open-skies agreement. My officials emphasised the importance of Shannon Airport for the economy of the west of Ireland, in particular in the context of Ireland's national spatial strategy which aims to...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: Galway airport is the trading name of Corrib Airport Limited, a subsidiary of Galway Chamber of Commerce and Industry which holds 90% of the issued shares in the airport company. A proposal by the management team at the airport for a management buy-out of the chamber of commerce's shareholding in the company was recently declined by the chamber. It is understood that the matter is now closed....

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: While waiting times in Waterford and Dungarvan have not improved since 1 April 2004, an additional driver tester has been assigned to the Waterford test centre for a period of at least six months. He will commence work in the centre with effect from 8 June 2004. He will also carry out tests in the Dungarvan test centre while on rotation from Waterford. This will provide additional capacity at...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: In accordance with a commitment under An Agreed Programme for Government, the Taxi Regulation Act 2003 was enacted in July 2003 to provide a legislative basis for the establishment of a commission for taxi regulation and an advisory council to the commission for taxi regulation. This legislation followed amending regulations made in 2002 to provide for the phased introduction of a taximeter...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (25 May 2004)

Séamus Brennan: CIE has provided the information requested by the Deputy which is outlined in the following table.