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Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: My Department has prepared an Economic and Tourism Development Plan for the Shannon Airport catchment area. The Plan has been prepared in consultation with the Department of Finance, the Department of Arts, Sport & Tourism, the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and will be finalised in the context of the...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: This is a long-term project, given the number and complexity of the Acts involved and my primary objective of reviewing and updating the primary legislation on merchant shipping. The consolidation phase of this project is to provide a consolidated working text of all the extant Acts, on which the review can then be based. It is not my intention to prepare a Consolidation Act per se, but...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 and 100 together. The Road Safety Authority (RSA), who have responsibility for its development, have submitted to me a draft Road Safety Strategy for the period 2007-2012. I intend to launch this new strategy, in conjunction with the RSA in the coming weeks. The issue of the type of barrier to be used on national roads is a matter for the National Roads...

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Arrangements to safeguard Heathrow slots are built into the Company's Memorandum and Articles of Association. The effect of these arrangements, at present, is that any disposal of Heathrow slots can be prevented by 30.4% of the votes cast at an Extraordinary General Meeting. 25.4% of the shares in the Company are held by the Minister for Finance on behalf of the State. Also, under the...

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 81, 89 and 107 together. The State airports at Dublin, Shannon and Cork are owned and managed by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) who operate them to a commercial mandate. The company has statutory responsibility for all day-to-day matters at these airports, including their marketing for new routes and new airlines. Under its commercial mandate DAA has the...

Written Answers — Transport Policy: Transport Policy (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Bus and rail services to the west of Ireland will benefit from investment, under Transport 21, in the completion of the Railway Safety Programme, the introduction into service of 183 new inter-city railcars, the re-opening of the Western Rail Corridor, investment in other rail upgrade projects including removal of speed restrictions and investment in improved bus services such as the 235 new...

Written Answers — Transport Policy: Transport Policy (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: The planning, design and construction of the Interconnector is a matter for Iarnród Éireann in the first instance. Transport 21 currently provides for the completion of the Interconnector by 2015. The acceleration of the project will be considered in the context of the feasibility and planning design studies currently being undertaken by Iarnród Éireann and its consultants and due for...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Regulations to give effect to a national maximum vehicle height of 4.65 metres are currently being prepared by the Road Safety Authority.

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: The current rules governing use of bus lanes were established through the Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997-1998. These regulations restrict the use of bus lanes to buses or minibuses operating under a public service licence, as well as allowing taxis and pedal cycles to use bus lanes which are with-flow (as opposed to contra-flow). I have now received a request from the...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Day to day operation of rail and bus services including the provision of supervisory and security personnel and facilities such as CCTV to deal with anti social behaviour is a matter for the transport operator in conjunction, where necessary, with the Garda Authorities.

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: With regard to drug testing of drivers, the Road Traffic Acts already provide that a member of the Garda Síochána may, where he or she is of the opinion that a person in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place is under the influence of a drug or drugs to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of that vehicle, require that person to go to a Garda...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. No 477 of 2006) the Road Safety Authority has responsibility for the publication of a consultation document on compulsory training for motorcyclists.

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: The provision of feeder and bus services to/from and between rail stations is a day-to-day operational matter for the relevant bus operators, Iarnród Éireann and the RPA and not one in which I have any role.

Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Dublin City Council is currently undertaking a traffic modelling exercise as part of its examination of revised traffic management arrangements in the city centre, which will be required for the delivery of the Luas city centre link (line BX), the further extension to Liffey Junction (line D) and also Metro North. In addition, the RPA is considering ways of streamlining and combining...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: In the Greater Dublin Area, the Quality Bus Network Project Office of Dublin City Council works to ensure that there is a uniform approach to the design standards and specifications of the quality bus network among the local authorities in the Greater Dublin Area. The design and specification for each scheme is integrated to take account of the most appropriate bus priority measures for the...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: A meeting of the North South Ministerial Council (Transport Sector) took place on 14th September 2007. The Council discussed and agreed the necessary steps to progress the A5 road project which will provide dual carriageway standard on the route within Northern Ireland serving the North West Gateway. The Council agreed to the formation of a management structure for the A5 project...

Written Answers — Motor Fuels: Motor Fuels (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: The Minerals Oil Tax Relief (MOTR) Scheme II, announced in November 2006, aims to place 163 million litres of biofuels on the market per annum at a cost of €200 million over the period 2006-2010. When the scheme is fully operational, it is expected that it will contribute 2.2% of total transport fuel consumption. In addition, obligatory fuel blending of 5% will be introduced by 2009 which...

Written Answers — Park and Ride Facilities: Park and Ride Facilities (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: Good progress is being made on the provision of park and ride facilities in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA). Iarnród Éireann is currently undertaking a nationwide programme of expanding and upgrading station car parks and 17 of these are in the GDA. New facilities at Leixlip Louisa Bridge and Adamstown were opened already this year and plans are well advanced at Donabate, Rush, Lusk and...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: The provision or improvement of non-national roads, including bridges, in its area is a matter for Kerry County Council to be funded from its own resources supplemented by State grants. In August this year, applications were invited from road authorities for funding under the non-national roads Specific Improvements Grant scheme in 2008. The proposals submitted by Kerry County Council...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (18 Oct 2007)

Noel Dempsey: I assume that the Deputy is referring to a letter sent by the Group Managing Director of Ireland West Airport Knock to the Secretary General of my Department following a media report concerning Shannon airport. My Department has acknowledged receipt of the letter and has indicated that a further reply will follow when the issues raised have been fully considered.