Results 6,101-6,120 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: The Deputy cannot possibly suggest that at the time the then Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, wanted to make decisions of that sort.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: The reality was that the then Minister was forced to make decisions of that sort because there was absolutely no money left for him to spend on projects of the sort proposed by the outgoing Fianna Fáil Government.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: If the Deputy is going to raise political hares-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: If Deputy Lisa Chambers is going to raise political hares, she must accept the reasons we were in that position-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: -----and that decision had to be made.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: I thank Deputy Lisa Chambers for raising this issue. I acknowledge the presence of the Deputy who spoke last, whose name is not mentioned because he is completely out of order.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: The trans-European transport network, TEN-T, is a Europe-wide network of roads, rail lines, ports, airports and rail-road terminals throughout the 28 EU member states. It comprises the comprehensive network and a subset called the core network. The core network is required to be completed by 2030. It is the most strategic part of this European transport network, with the objective of TEN-T...
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: I thank the Deputy for going back to those questions. I find it difficult to answer the political charges she made because I was not in office at the time.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: I fully support the decision of the current Taoiseach when he was Minister in 2011.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: The reason he made it was very simple; there was not enough money in the kitty at the time.
- Topical Issue Debate: Trans European Transport Network Programme (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: It was not just a matter of applying for the grant. He would also have had to produce money out of the air. There is only one thing easier than spending money in the future, at which Fianna Fáil is very good, and that is spending money in the past, at which it is becoming even better. Fianna Fáil is rewriting history and stating the money was available, but we know what the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: I assure the Deputies that the NTA will consider the obvious social consequences of the project with equal enthusiasm. The words were carefully chosen in terms of it being referred to as the optimal technical route. I suspect those words were left out deliberately because they would give the impression that it is optimal in the technical sense, which is a very crude way of judging a project...
- Topical Issue Debate: Light Rail Projects (18 Apr 2018)
Shane Ross: I thank the Deputies for raising this important issue and acknowledge the support of Sinn Féin for the metro project. That should not be forgotten with what is happening, which they have addressed today. I join them in expressing sympathy to the family of Deirdre Lambe who passed away. The MetroLink project is the development of a north-south urban railway service that will run between...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: I thank the Chair. The Secretary General certainly gets a full transcript and he is probably watching the meeting as we speak.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: I will tell him that.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: First, I thank the committee for the chance to present the Revised Estimates for 2018 for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The 2018 provision for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport comprises an overall gross allocation of €2.03 billion. This is to be used to provide investment in critical infrastructure and to ensure that vital services are available to the...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: Deputy Troy referred to the pay increase. It is departmental administration. As overall administration costs went up in the Department, all programmes went up. We do not fund the IAA at all. It is completely self-funding and, in fact, very profitable. I think that answers the Deputy's other question on the engagement of the IAA in recruitment. We would not incur a liability on that...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: Yes. Regarding Deputy Murphy's question, the aircraft accident investigation insurance policy was first taken out in 1993. It indemnifies the Minister and the air accident investigation unit's costs incurred by the Department in the investigation of major commercial transport aircraft accidents, including the costs of recovery, package and storage of wreckage but excluding the costs...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: I do not know, but I can find out. I will inquire for the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Revised) (18 Apr 2018) Shane Ross: Okay. There are two. Regarding the purpose of the two policies, the note reads:to indemnify the Minister and the [IAA] against the cost of claims by third parties for damages arising from aviation related incidents deemed attributable to negligence on the part of the Minister or the Authority in the exercise of their aviation related functions (These costs are refunded by the IAA ... ) and...