Results 5,041-5,060 of 5,767 for speaker:Olivia Mitchell

Airport Development Projects. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: I am not saying that we do not have a clear view on open skies. However, we are not delivering any of the policies that will benefit Ireland.

Airport Development Projects. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: There is no terminal, no plans, no runway.

Airport Development Projects. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Where will they land? On what runway will they land?

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: He dropped the strategic infrastructure Bill.

Traffic Management. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: It is very much in the hat. The Government spent €1 billion on building a tunnel for which there is no purpose and no clear plan and, as such, deserves to be criticised.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has considered the impact of projected population changes within the greater Dublin area and its implication for his Department's ten-year transport plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29710/05]

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: And nothing to do with the subject.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: After eight years in Government we might have one.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: We all agree that a longer-term horizon is welcome but the idea of such a horizon is that it gives certainty as to what projects will go ahead. That has not happened. There has been every effort to obfuscate about what is planned to hide the fact that nothing is happening. There have been five year plans. There have been national plans. There have been national envelopes of plans. There are...

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: ——and yet every day we hear that there are tailbacks on the new section of the motorway, which it is not planned to widen. The reality is we are losing competitiveness every day as a result of congestion in this city and every other city and the public is losing patience with the Minister. As a result of these compelling figures about population, has the plan been expanded, adjusted or...

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: This all would be far more credible if we had not heard it week in, week out for the past 12 months. Would the Minister accept, at least, that it is totally false economy to keep postponing projects, that not alone is the cost of each project increasing but the scale of the response is increasing with every passing month?

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: It is the scale of the response that is needed.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Since 1998 we have listened week in, week out to the Minister telling us the Government would give us a metro system in Dublin. Where is it?

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: It is a time-wasting project.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: The buses were promised in 2000.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Dublin Bus is certainly flexible. It juggles buses every day.

Public Transport. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: Not us; the Minister promised the buses in 2000.

Road Safety. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: When I made inquiries recently about the causes of accidents and what investigations are done, I was horrified to discover that depending on the type of accident and whether a criminal prosecution was likely, a certain line of investigation took place, but if there was no criminal prosecution, even in a case where there was a fatality, a different type of investigation took place. There does...

Driver Testing. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: I agree with the Minister that driver behaviour is the single biggest cause of most accidents. However, driver behaviour is influenced by official action and particularly by official indifference. The message going out to drivers must be that there is official indifference to road safety given that there are 335,000 drivers with provisional licences, most of whom have failed their driving...

Driver Testing. (19 Oct 2005)

Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is in charge.