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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is very helpful. I will summarise the proposal for Deputy Troy who asked the question and has just joined us. Where there is a gap, and there is no existing service, it is proposed that there be a community and private initiative where it would pay the insurance costs on a monthly basis to the service provider, so long as they met certain requirements, and that it will be done in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: When will that start?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Hopefully, it will be before the summer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Of course, it can. I will call Deputy Troy and then Deputies Michael Collins and Kevin O'Keeffe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: A number of issues have arisen. Deputy Munster has asked very important questions but I am trying to concentrate on rural transport and questions relating to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want to try to keep a structure so that they will not have any problem answering them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want to deal with the issue of rural transport first. We will then go back to the second part of Deputy Munster's question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: A number of other people-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I am Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I want Deputy Munster to listen to me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Not at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: If the Deputy does not listen to me, the committee will go into private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The committee will now go into private session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: We are resuming in public session. We will deal with all the questions germane to the agenda for today and will then address all other questions. I will take Deputy O'Keeffe, who is Vice Chairman of the committee, and then Deputies Michael Collins, Éamon Ó Cuív and Danny Healy-Rae and Senator Humphreys.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is the Deputy asking for the service to commence earlier, to get people to work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: If it is helpful, the NTA's representatives have said that the NTA will pay the insurance on a monthly basis. That is what they are saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: The gentleman the Deputy calls "Ross" has a title. Deputy Collins is a Deputy and Deputy Ross is a Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: Out of respect, I am not asking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority (27 Feb 2019)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not call the Deputy "Collins".