Results 601-620 of 11,242 for speaker:Noel Dempsey
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The Department spent â¬6,438 on carbon offsets for official travel in 2007 and 2008 under the Irish Government Offsetting Scheme, including travel by the Minister and Minister of State. The Department spent â¬3,556 on carbon offsets for official travel in 2009 including travel by the Minister and Minister of State. Expenditure for 2010 travel will fall due in 2011. The money was paid to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The information sought is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: My Department spent â¬128,030 in 2009 and â¬63,917 to-date in 2010 on public advertisements in national and local print media, radio and television.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: Waterford Airport With regard to Waterford Regional Airport, â¬10,734 has been paid out in respect of the ATC Navigational Aids and Landing Aids Localiser Project, under the Capital Expenditure Grant Scheme. Later this year, I intend to give further consideration to the overall capital funding of projects at the regional airports in future years. Heavy Rail As part of Transport 21, my...
- Written Answers — National Car Tests: National Car Tests (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: Under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 477 of 2006) this is a matter for the Road Safety Authority.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: All applications from staff for transfer, relocation or exchange to or from my Department are made via the Central Applications Facility (CAF), which is maintained by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). The information requested pertaining to the agencies is a matter for each agency itself.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The Department's training unit receives a budget allocation within the overall administrative budget to enable it to discharge its responsibilities to staff. The budget allocation to the Training Unit for 2010 is â¬351,000 of which â¬93,000 has been spent by the end of June 2010.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: This is a Second Stage speech. Put the question.
- Written Answers — Cycle Facilities: Cycle Facilities (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The research which preceded the production of the National Cycle Policy Framework (NCPF) identified the potential of contra-flow cycling lanes in improving the permeability of our cities and towns for cycling and the NCPF refers to this possibility. My Department is aware that a contra-flow cycle lane has been operational for some considerable time in St Andrew's Street in Dublin and is also...
- Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 320 and 323 together. Since 1st December 2009, this is a matter which comes under the remit of the National Transport Authority (NTA).
- Written Answers — Parking Regulations: Parking Regulations (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 321, 324 and 325 together. The provisions of the Road Traffic Acts relating to parking apply only to the parking of vehicles on public roads or in local authority car parks. The practice of clamping or the removal of vehicles on private property does not come within the scope of Road Traffic legislation and I have no plans to regulate in this area.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: To date the only contractually committed Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, which involve ongoing operational payments, relate to the National Roads Authority's first roads PPP programme. The first operational payments in relation to these projects arose in 2007 and, as indicated in response to an earlier question from the Deputy, I have been advised by the National Roads Authority...
- Written Answers — Parking Regulations: Parking Regulations (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The legislative basis for the application of immobilisation devices to vehicles which are illegally parked on public roads or in Local Authority car parks is set out in Section 101 (B) of the Road Traffic Act 1961, as inserted by the Dublin Transport Authority (Dissolution) Act 1987. Regulations entitled the Road Traffic (Immobilisation of Vehicles) Regulations were made in 1998 to give...
- Written Answers — Parking Regulations: Parking Regulations (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: Where Local Authorities have contracted private operators for enforcement in relation to public car parking, any appeals against clamping are matters for the Local Authorities concerned, and my Department has no role, and no data, in regard to this.
- Written Answers — Inland Fisheries: Inland Fisheries (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments 2004 (BWM Convention), which will apply internationally, will prevent, minimize and ultimately eliminate the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens through the control and management of ships' ballast water and sediments. The Convention has not yet entered into force as ratification...
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: Irish Rail briefed me on the deterioration in its financial position due to declining demand and revenue and increased costs. The company is implementing a wide-ranging cost recovery plan to ensure its financial viability, including the suspension of services on the Waterford-Rosslare line. Decisions in regard to services such as those on the Waterford-Rosslare route and their links with...
- Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The Commission for Aviation Regulation is the competent authority in the State in respect of EU Regulation 261/2004. I have no function in the matter.
- Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: I am aware of the initiative in the Netherlands that the Deputy refers to. I have no plans to introduce such measures here. As the Deputy will be aware, comprehensive protections and rights for passengers when travelling by air are already enshrined in European law. Regulation (EC) 261/2004 established common European rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of...
- Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The proceedings being taken against Ireland relate to the transposition of Directive 2001/14/EC. This Directive, which is part of the first railway package, provides for the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification. In February of this year I signed the European Communities (Railway Infrastructure)...
- Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (6 Jul 2010)
Noel Dempsey: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from local authorities own resources and are supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the local...