Results 6,561-6,580 of 10,035 for speaker:Martin Cullen
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: Deputy Shortall does not want it; Deputy Mitchell does.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: The Fine Gael position is that it wants liberalisation but the Labour Partyââ
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: It has everything to do with what the Deputy is saying in the House this afternoon.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: Deputy Shortall and the Labour Party want no opening of the market.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: I agree with Deputy Shortall on one point. She is correct that the customers want buses. They do not mind who delivers the busesââ
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: ââso long as they are available. I have urged both Dublin Bus and Bus Ãireann to send me the plans so I can release the buses. It would be irresponsible of me, or any Minister, simply to waste taxpayers' money on no basis. The cost of the application that has arrived from Dublin Bus is â¬120 million. The Labour Party Members speak every day about value for money in expenditure on health...
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: The Deputy should be consistent.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: There is.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: If Fine Gael and the Labour Party want value for money in every aspect of what the Government does, I agree with them. Do not, therefore, suggest in the House that I, as Minister for Transport, with no basis of a network review and without a business case should willy-nilly spend â¬120 million of taxpayers' money immediately. The Members are contradicting themselves and it is time it...
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: ââbut they will not get away with it as far as I am concerned. They cannot have it both ways on value for money.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: The Deputy's party was in power within the nine years and did nothing about it.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: It was.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: I am not sure in what part of the country the Fine Gael Party or the Labour Party live but since 1998 the liberalisation in the bus market in this country has been phenomenal. The number of private operators operating in the bus market has gone through the roof in that short period. Ask the customers. Private operators are running services from practically every part of Ireland today and from...
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: They have expanded dramatically. The number of services available has had a huge impact in liberalising the market. An issue remains and that is the on-street delivery of bus services in Dublin, on which both Fine Gael and the Labour Party have diametrically opposed views. One party wants the market liberalised to allow private operators onto the bus market in Dublinââ
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: ââwhile the Labour Party does not want that to happen.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: They do not have a united front on this. They are split on the issue.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: The Deputies are obfuscating by coming after me and the Government but they are wrong.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: The Deputies are trying to pretend to the people that they have a cohesive alternative when they do not.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: I agree.
- Public Transport. (1 Feb 2006)
Martin Cullen: So there should be no basis for spending. That is the Labour Party view.