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Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The use of bus lanes is provided for in the Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997 and 1998. The primary purpose of bus lanes is to facilitate and promote bus based public transport. The regulations, which have national application, generally limit the use of bus lanes to buses and, in the case of with-flow bus lanes, to cyclists. an exemption to the restriction relating to the...

Written Answers — Social Insurance Fund: Social Insurance Fund (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The amount of superannuation collected from employees of the Department of Transport was €379,686 in 2003; €438,600 in 2004 and €467,587 in 2005. Superannuation contributions are not paid into the social insurance fund. The pay-related social insurance contributions collected from employees of the Department of Transport came to €650,395 in 2003; to €722,690 in 2004 and to...

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The Department of Transport operates under the Department of Finance's 2000 policy document, A Positive Working Environment, which was amended in 2005. The document sets out, inter alia, the policy of the Civil Service on bullying. The document has been circulated to all employees. There are no outstanding law cases regarding the issue by employees. Three cases have been dealt with in the...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Some €84,900 was paid to staff of the Department of Transport as bonus or merit award payments for the year ending 31 December 2005. Some €44,900 was paid to those holding posts of assistant secretary, which are covered by a scheme of performance related awards overseen by the Committee for Performance Awards. The funding for awards is based on 10% of the payroll for the posts covered by...

Written Answers — National Safety Council: National Safety Council (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The National Safety Council has been allocated €5.559 million from the Exchequer for 2006. The council also receives funding from the Irish Insurance Federation and from private sponsorship.

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Driving tests for category C, rigid truck, in Loughrea and category EC tests, articulated truck, in Galway city are suspended, as certain manoeuvres which form part of the test can no longer be safely conducted on test routes in the respective locations. The Department of Transport has asked the Office of Public Works to secure a suitable off-road compound so that HGV tests can be conducted...

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Iarnród Éireann has advised me that it is in negotiations with a shipping company about the transport of full container trains between Ballina and Waterford Port. Subject to clarification on a number of outstanding issues, this service is due to commence in mid-April this year. It is my policy that Iarnród Éireann should remain in the rail freight business. I am aware that it has made...

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Provisional driving licences issued by licensing authorities are recorded on the national driver file, held and administered by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, which has advised that 404,607 provisional licences were current at 31 December 2005. Information on numbers awaiting driving tests and waiting times is set out in the following table: Applications...

Written Answers — Departmental Strategy Statements: Departmental Strategy Statements (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The requirement to produce an annual corporate procurement plan comes from the national public procurement policy framework, which was issued by the Department of Finance in May 2005. In response to the policy document, the Department has undertaken steps to produce a corporate procurement plan in 2006.

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Most of the bodies under the aegis of the Department of Transport have submitted their annual reports for 2004. The reports have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas if there is a legislative requirement to do so. The exceptions are the National Safety Council and the Dublin Transportation Office.

Written Answers — Drug Testing: Drug Testing (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 888 and 889 together. I have not directed a date under Article 18(1) of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety Establishment Order 1968 by which the medical bureau is required to submit its annual report. The bureau submits its annual report and accounts to the Department on the completion of the audit of the accounts by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: A large number of regulations have been made under section 82 of the Road Traffic Act 1961, as amended. A number of them have been repealed. The regulations made under section 82 which remain in force, in part or in full, are as follows: Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1963, (S.I. No. 191 of 1963); Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Regulations, 1964, (S.I. No. 106 of...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Data on test results is not compiled by the Department of Transport. Statistics relating to test activity at each national car test centre for 2002, 2003 and 2004 is contained in the Irish Bulletin of Vehicle and Driver Statistics, which is published annually by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The data relates to vehicles generally but not by make or model...

Written Answers — Commencement Orders: Commencement Orders (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The information sought by the Deputy is outlined in the following table: Section of Act not yet in force Provisions of section What is the current position? Taxi Regulation Act 2003 — section 35. Section 35 provides that any decision made to refuse to grant, suspend or revoke a licence can be reviewed at the request of the applicant or licence holder and that where the...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The high level group on road safety, which is chaired by the Department of Transport, comprises representatives of the Departments of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Health and Children, the Garda, the National Roads Authority, the National Safety Council, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, the County and City Managers Association and the Irish...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The EU Commission's proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 1999/62/EC on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures, more commonly known as the Eurovignette directive, has been under consideration by the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council and by the European Parliament since its publication in...

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Irish driving licence regulations are required to operate within the framework of a harmonised EU system, the requirements of which differ in significant respects from those of individual states within the United States of America. Accordingly, a bilateral agreement with the United States of America for the mutual exchange of driving licences is not envisaged at present.

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: Transport 21 includes a financial provision to cover the anticipated capital cost of the Kildare route project. The railway order process for the project is under way. I understand that the public inquiry commenced this week. The amount of construction work that can take place in 2006 on this project, and consequently the funding required for the year, will be influenced by the timing and...

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: The resignalling project for the city centre, to increase train paths from 12 to 16 per hour through Connolly Station, is a key element of the Transport 21 programme for rail. Iarnród Éireann is currently assembling a design team and it is anticipated that work will commence in the latter part of 2006. I have not requested Iarnród Éireann to outsource the work. However, I understand from...

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (25 Jan 2006)

Martin Cullen: I understand that Dublin Bus is finalising the review of its bus network and I expect to receive the completed report shortly. The company has just submitted an application for funding for additional fleet requirements, which has due regard to the emerging findings of the network review. I will make a decision when the assessment has been completed.