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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but the CTTC is operating its private service - and fair play to it - and making its profit from it. However, Mr. Traynor wants to make the State responsible and is asking that some of the CTTC's costs be offloaded on the State. The CTTC applies for contracts. One way of looking at the matter is that if it is a problem for the CTTC to provide wheelchair-accessible services, perhaps we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but I am saying to Mr. Traynor-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Of course, but it is like any business. If one goes into a business wanting to provide a thorough service, one is aware there is a cost factor, particularly when it is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: I will finish up. It seemed from the Mr. Traynor's statement that he pretty much admits there is no private sector solution to this issue. If there were, I suppose we would have it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Traynor has seen from earlier discussions the struggle it is to provide public transport. I had asked him the question to see what his suggestion was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: -----and how we would secure the funding, whether by raising taxes or otherwise. Mr. Traynor wants the State to subside the CTTC.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: However, the CTTC would then cherry-pick the routes. That is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: The CTTC would apply for certain routes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but I am saying the difference between the CTTC and the public transport system - again, I am just pointing it out-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: -----is that the latter provides a service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Yes, not in the context of whether or not it is the most profitable route or the most used route. It is a service. That is the difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: That is all I am-----

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: Today, 29 people of all ages who were in need of medical assistance were left lying in the corridors of the emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. Staff in the emergency department had to run the equivalent of an inpatient ward in the corridors of the emergency department, on top of all the patients presenting to the emergency department 24-7. Staff also had to...

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: A successful employment rights infrastructure is one that operates on the basis of equality and a level playing field between workers and their employers. One cannot claim to support the right of workers to collectively bargain if one does not support the right to trade union recognition because both are inextricably linked. This Bill will give practical effect to the right of workers to be...

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: First Stage (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: 102. To ask the Taoiseach the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if this process was carried out by his Department or outsourced in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [1572/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legislative Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: 127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if this process was carried out by his Department or outsourced in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [1562/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Reviews (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: 161. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if this process was carried out by his department or outsourced in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [1566/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if this process was carried out by his Department or outsourced in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [1565/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Imelda Munster: 284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projects undertaken to consolidate or amalgamate existing legislation, including the cost, the duration, the number of staff required and if this process was carried out by his Department or outsourced in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [1570/18]