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- Written Answers — Light Rail Projects: Light Rail Projects (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received from the RPA the business plans which examine the extension of the Luas to Cherrywood and the Dublin Docklands; if he will report on the recommendations contained in these business plans; if these business plans will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15487/05]
- Air Services. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether, in the event of a partial sale of Aer Lingus, it would be possible to include a caveat in the sale agreement to ensure the retention of landing slots at Heathrow Airport by Dublin passengers; if he is actively considering such a clause; the action taken to examine this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Air Services. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: I am inclined to agree with the Minister that there is no reason to believe Aer Lingus will lose the Heathrow slots or that the market will not dictate that those slots will remain and be used for the benefit of Irish passengers. It is probably true that if the market was to change, there is very little the Government, as a minority owner, could do to ensure that a majority owner did not sell...
- Air Services. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: Does the Minister agree that there is a need for a runway, terminal and a CEO for Aer Lingus before we begin talking about Dublin Airport becoming a hub?
- Air Services. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: It would have been better if Aer Lingus could have kept the previous CEO.
- Airport Development Projects. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Transport if he maintains that it is the mandate of the Dublin Airport Authority to provide terminal services at Dublin Airport; if his stated aim is to maximise the use of existing airport lands in the provision of a second terminal at Dublin Airport, the reason his Department sought alternative expressions of interest to build a second terminal; and if he...
- Airport Development Projects. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is not.
- Airport Development Projects. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: I am inclined to agree with the Minister about the lack of examples of competing terminals and that this is a step in the dark. Does the Minister agree that it was irresponsible of his Department and his predecessor to search for expressions of interest and to put 13 firms and a 14th firm more recently to the expense of making proposals if there was no intention of pursuing them? I have heard...
- Airport Development Projects. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: I feel there is a breakdown in communication between the Minister and the Dublin Airport Authority. He keeps saying it is up to the authority to provide a terminal, which is true, but it is not up to it to provide it on its own lands. That is a where there is a difficulty between the Minister and the Dublin Airport Authority. When the chairman of that authority appeared before a committee he...
- Airport Development Projects. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is responsible for making this decision but he has not done so. That is the precise point we have been making.
- Airport Development Projects. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: The Minster is the person responsible for making this decision.
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: Does the Minister consider it fair, either to the hotels or the fledgeling Dublin Airport Authority, to leave the hotels in the care of an organisation that admits it does not have the interest, finance or ability necessary to run hotels? Running hotels is not what the authority does or what it is good at. Does it not have enough to do in running airports? Does it not behove the Minister to...
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: On airports generally, rather than hotels, comfort was offered to both Cork and Shannon airports in respect of the financial status of their respective authorities, as the Minister is aware. When the State Airports Bill was passed, everybody understood the authorities would be free of debt, if established. There is great concern in Cork that this position may have changed, as I am sure the...
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: If they are set up with debt, how can they be viable?
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: The whole point was that they would be set up without debt.
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: My question was not answered.
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: They are based on the availability of facts.
- State Airports. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: My question is similar to that of Deputy Shortall. The business plans are predicated on the availability of certain facts. Cork Airport Authority, for instance, began planning on the basis that it would start off without debt. Now it does not know. How can it prepare the business plans without that information? Deputy Shortall is right, political decisions must be made so that the business...
- Driving Tests. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: The Minister is wrong.
- Airport Security. (12 May 2005)
Olivia Mitchell: I have great admiration for the way the authorities have responded to the lapse that was detected. I am sure many passengers do not feel the same when they are delayed. Additional channels and training have been put in place as quickly as possible. Is congestion and a lack of infrastructure not largely the cause of this lapse? The visible manifestations of this are queuing, under-provision...