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- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: That is the whole point.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: I ask Deputies to preserve order.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: May I try to keep the debate orderly?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The Deputy may throw her eyes up to heaven if she so wishes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: I am not. I am trying to help the Deputy. The key point the Minister needs to clarify is how many of the routes that are mentioned are PSO routes.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: I want to try to allow all members to contribute.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: I call Deputy Coppinger and Deputy Munster may then come back in.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: I am happy if Deputy Coppinger is.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Is Deputy Coppinger looking for a list of all of those routes?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Is the gross cost contract the issue there?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The problem is that this is an Estimates meeting and it is only Members of the Dáil who can be here. There is correspondence which the committee received from Deputy Coppinger on that issue but it can only properly be considered by the joint committee.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Can I get clarity on this? Would it be helpful if the Minister can supply details, today or as soon thereafter, of these routes and how PSO routes are defined?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: Hold on a second, I am trying to be helpful.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: There is additional funding being spent here and the members are entitled to know what the routes are and whether they are PSO or not. Is that not the point at issue here?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: At a meeting of the joint committee, Deputy Coppinger's correspondence will be read. I presume that would be agreed. Is there any other point arising from the debate today?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The problem I see there is that I could be a private operator but I am not getting any funding from the Department. The Department might not even know that I am there.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: My point is, how would the Department know?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: If I want to run a bus from A to B, can I do that?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Fergus O'Dowd: The NTA is coming in next week. We cannot debate that at the meeting as such but we can ask its representatives to address that issue. I presume we will agree to a meeting thereafter.