Results 5,061-5,080 of 26,014 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Ms Graham. I will now call on members. The order we have is that members who are present in the committee room will be called in the sequential order we have picked, non-members who are substituting for members are next and then other non-members. First is Deputy Matthews, who has ten minutes. However, I will be quite liberal with the timing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I suggest we go with initial slots of ten minutes. Members can then take it as a guarantee that we will come back to them. Rather than 20-minute slots, we will initially stick to ten to allow everyone the chance to come in at an early stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Deputy want Ms Graham and Mr. Creegan to deal with those questions now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That would probably be more productive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are members and non-members happy enough with that approach? It will keep things flowing. The next committee member is Deputy O'Rourke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I think Deputy O'Rourke would like a bit of interaction from our guests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that on the Fine Gael parliamentary party-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will now move to non-members and those substituting for members. Deputy Lahart is substituting for Deputy Cathal Crowe. He has ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is something we collectively look at as a committee. The timescale on this is very short. We have had a lot of groups looking to come in. We have looked for submissions from groups that we can bring up with the NTA. It is very difficult but it is something we will consider as a committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How did the witnesses wish to proceed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Ms Graham happy to allow further speakers in? Does Deputy Murphy wish to speak?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Senator Seery Kearney wish for an interaction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the way we will do it. Deputy Catherine Murphy has ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Deputy. I will go back to a member of the committee, Senator Buttimer, and then to Deputy Leddin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Go ahead, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Senator. I suggest the officials, in this first round, go back to the questions put by members and other Oireachtas colleagues. We started with Deputy Matthews, then went to Deputy O'Rourke. Thereafter, I think we went to Deputy Lahart, Senator Seery Kearney, Deputies Catherine Murphy and Leddin and Senator Buttimer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will come in on that point. The metro south west group has sent us a great deal of documentation and has made a suggestion, that the witnesses are probably fully aware of, that it would like to see included in the draft strategy. Its correspondence reads: Metro South West Group would request that the text beneath goes into section 12.3 dealing with light rail as this is where the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is LRT2?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy 2022-2042: National Transport Authority (28 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Six years is a long time away. Can the NTA carry out that review earlier?