Results 4,901-4,920 of 10,035 for speaker:Martin Cullen

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1, 2 and 5 together. The Government yesterday made a number of significant decisions that will provide a solid basis for expanded and improved bus services throughout the country over the coming years, while ensuring better value for money for both passengers and taxpayers. In the case of the greater Dublin area, there is a requirement for an expansion of the...

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: They will be exclusively available for the private sector and there will be a tendering process for them.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: The first 15% will be exclusively for the private sector. After that the whole market will be opened up.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: Beyond the first 15% everybody will be able to compete for new services.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: No. It is an entirely different proposal.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: Yes.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: I am pleased that, after many discussions with stakeholders, both in the public and private sectors, the proposals on which I was working met with favour in Government. This is an evolutionary approach to a planned opening up of the market and is in line with EU competition law. I have already conveyed the need for Dublin Bus to provide an additional 100 buses into the market in Dublin....

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: We will support the entire pool of buses for subvented routes, as provided for in Transport 21, because subvention is involved.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: We will wait for proposals to come forward but I am not averse to it. The immediate requirement, however, as indicated by Dublin Bus network planning, was for 100 buses, which it has now received. It is often forgotten by people looking purely at the numbers in the present fleet that the capacity has increased by 40%, owing to a change in the type of buses the company uses. One cannot...

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: I do not know how the Deputy can question the Government's significant commitment to getting people on to public transport in Dublin and throughout the country. There seems to be some confusion on her part. Some 22 million people use the Luas each year.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: The question is whether the Government is committed to public transport.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: The evidence is clear that there is serious commitment by the Government, more than any other Government in history, both in planning resources and in large investment in improving public transport in general.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: In Luas, Dart, commuter services and inter-city rail our commitment has been unbelievable. The Labour Party has a difficulty with it because it finds it hard to see Fianna Fáil continuing such a commitment.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: There has been significant investment in the capacity of Dublin Bus. Deputy Shortall is fighting an old battle that not even the unions and Dublin Bus are fighting. She should talk to them.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: Hundreds of new buses with a huge increase in capacity——

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: Dublin Bus asked me for 100 buses immediately and I am delighted to say that is in place and the money is being provided to Dublin Bus to deliver them.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: They will be delivered over two years. The second 100 will be made available immediately to private sector companies for procurement on a competition basis which will form part of guaranteeing the next——

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: Does Deputy Shortall want me to answer the question?

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: If the Labour Party and Fine Gael were in power it would take forever, however unlike Deputy Shortall I make decisions and deliver.

Public Transport. (28 Sep 2006)

Martin Cullen: Dublin's public transport capacity has been greatly increased over recent years.