Results 5,801-5,820 of 26,021 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Would it be too harsh to ask if Mr. Owens is anti-car?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Has Mr. Owens had a chance to look at the matter of Dublin Bus getting to its target of zero carbon emissions by 2050?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: At the end of Mr. Owens's five-year term, what would the landscape of Dublin Bus be, in terms of infrastructure in Dublin itself? Let us say ten years, because a lot of the policies Mr. Owens will be looking to implement at board level would probably not come to fruition until a couple of years later. What is Mr. Owens's vision for the landscape of the geographical area Dublin Bus covers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Owens see Dublin city as being car-free? Is it moving in that direction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Why do you say that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Owens see us moving in the direction of park-and-ride facilities on the outskirts of the city and people within the city using public transport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: How long will that take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not think any other members wish to come in. We will write to the Minister to say we have met Mr. Owens. We wish him well in his role. We have had meetings on the greater Dublin transport strategy and we will follow up that engagement, so we will probably be engaging again with Dublin Bus. I thank Mr. Owens and his colleague for attending today's meeting and engaging with the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who still remain on the pandemic unemployment payment; the measures that her Department has implemented that have been the most impactful to ensure those who were on the payment found new employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24650/22]

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Taoiseach. I am the chair of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I agree with my colleagues on the resourcing of committees. The workload for the staff is very heavy. We need extra staff within the committees. The communications unit has to be resourced as well. I support the call for that. Our committee has done quite a bit of pre-legislative scrutiny....

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: It makes it difficult.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is the key.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: The simple solution is often the best way.

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: He had to get the last kick of the match.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Chairman, for allowing me to contribute. Has the Department or the HSE signed any confidentiality clause with St. Vincent's in terms of what can be released in respect of the contract? That is the first question, because there is a myth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay, that is good. Second, to get to the nuts and bolts, if I go to the Property Registration Authority after the hospital is built, who will I see has title to the land?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: For the layman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I presume that is because it is there for so long-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is a registry of deeds rather than title.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, it is the nuts and bolts in the short time I have.