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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Correspondence No. 2019/406 was considered on 14 February. We are reissuing the invitation to the Minister to attend to discuss rural transport. Is that agreed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We agreed on 14 February to reissue the invitation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: He is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: On a point of information, we agreed on 14 February to reissue the invitation to him and asked him to make himself available at a date to be agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am only making the point that we have asked him to make himself available. It is quite right that the Minister should be here. He cannot be here today but we have asked for him to be here as soon as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The committee has made it clear in response to him that we want him to come here at a date to be agreed. We have already decided that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It was agreed on 14 February that we would write to him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The clerk tells me it is up for discussion today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Does any other member wish to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am in the members' hands. According to the minutes of 14 February, we asked to reschedule the meeting. The letter did not issue yet because we were to discuss the issue today. We will issue the invitation again and ask the clerk to make contact with the Minister's private secretary to fix a date as soon as possible and certainly within the next couple of weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: No. The item was considered on 14 February and the members agreed to reissue the invitation for a date to be confirmed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We have to confirm the date. The letter has not issued because the correspondence is only being seen by the full committee today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We are now in public session. The clerk has explained that our last meeting was a private meeting and there was no public part of that meeting. It is a decision of this committee that all correspondence must be dealt with in public. This is the first opportunity we have had to discuss this formally as a committee. The consensus is that it will issue today and that the clerk will make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is that agreed? That is agreed. On No. 2019/407, it is proposed to note this correspondence because they will appear before the committee this morning. No. 2019/408 is on the proposal to arrange a visit to the Coast Guard marine rescue co-ordination as soon as possible. We are trying to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will ask the clerk to arrange that. On 2019/409, it is proposed to note this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. On 2019/410A and 2019/410B, it is proposed to note this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. On 2019/411, it is proposed to note this correspondence and forward it to the National Transport Authority, NTA, for comment....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is the Senator suggesting that we would get a date in March?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We can do two things. We can ask the FAI if the person concerned is no longer employed by the organisation. I do not know what the case is. The Senator may wish to have that included specifically. From our perspective the meeting is about corporate. The clerk has advised me that the chief executive officer is the person accountable for that issue before us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is a very important issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Yes. I hear the Senator. We have set that meeting for 10 April. Would the Senator like us to try for an earlier date if possible? It is probably unlikely; that is the date.