Results 7,161-7,180 of 10,899 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Mathews will not have to worry about it anyway.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Tuigimid go léir cad tá i gceist ag an Teachta.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How many people per day used the two routes being discussed? What did the services cost to provide? Mr. Murphy has said Bus Éireann operates under impediments other operators do not face. Presumably they are operating under licence. Are different licences allocated to different companies on the same routes? In other words, are there different criteria for different companies and, if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What about Mr. Murphy's comments on the Irish language, accessibility and so forth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Therefore, there is no requirement for it to do it under the licence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The authority did not do that as the motorway network was being developed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: This is important. Since the motorway network was developed, has there been any attempt by the NTA to look at PSO services to the towns that were bypassed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Does it include the school transport service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Nolan said there were three people in Athy using the service. How much is the service costing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What will the company save in getting rid of the two services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Will Mr. Nolan tell us what the figure is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much is the service costing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much are those two services costing? What is the annual cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Mr. Nolan has not answered it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: In fairness to the people whose service is being cut, they should be given this information. Taxpayers should know how much the service is costing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Bus Éireann is a semi-State company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is the shareholder in Bus Éireann which is a semi-State company and operating public service obligation routes outside its Expressway services. It is fair to ask, on behalf of the people who are losing their service, how much it is costing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Bus Éireann is taking away the service. It has shown its hand. This is like a poker game. I do not think it is too much to ask how much its decision to take away this service will save. What is it costing? Are the delegates refusing to answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is regrettable, as Bus Éireann is a semi-State company. The National Transport Authority has made it clear that it would like to have additional resources available to Bus Éireann. The representatives of Bus Éireann who have come to this meeting are trying to defend the decision to remove this service, but they are not willing to tell Members of the Oireachtas how much...