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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are not talking about anybody setting a specific fare. Could the NTA decide tomorrow, as it does every year, to have outrageous fares for rural Ireland and outrageously smaller fares in urban Ireland because it does not like rural people? Will the Minister not intervene there? Has he no policy role whatsoever there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I get a clear yes or no answer to that question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does that include fare policy, the big policy? Is the answer to that yes or no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Change that law and we will make it proper.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is no commuter service around Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What is the commuter service into Galway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I have the service on my app but there are no commuter services. A commuter service means there are regular trains coming into the city at commuter times. There is no such commuter service. Two trains come into the city in the morning and two trains depart from the city in the evening. One goes to Dublin and one goes to Limerick. By chance people can get on those trains but they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The idea that the company is developing a commuter services if it happens to run two InterCity trains into the city-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does Mr. Mullaney remember the roads needs assessment of many years ago? There was a big-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If one looks at that, it was proposed that the road from Athlone to Ballinasloe had the least amount of traffic and that it should be a single carriageway. Would it not be beautiful to travel out of Galway on the duel carriageway, onto the single carriageway and then back onto the duel? Over half of the national primary routes are already duelled. Is it within the policy remit of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is just as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I want to clarify what we are talking about. We are discussing national primary roads. I understand that the N11 is almost finished.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The M1 is done and a bit of the M2 has been done but one can go down the M1 and then go across. The M3 is great down to Virginia, when it runs into the bog. On the N4, one gets to Mullingar and then runs into the bog. That is also the case with the N5. The N6, N7, N8 and the N9-N10 have been done and the N11 is almost done. All that remains to be done are the Waterford to Cork and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Am I right in thinking that a national primary road is up to the number 50, be that M50 or N50?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There are very few of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to raise an issue briefly. We must flag the fact that there needs to be a policy to the effect that services will be provided late in the evening. We will be commemorating the centenary of the First Dáil on 21 January 2019. The general election took place on 15 December 1918 and the results were not in until the end of the year, with Christmas in between, yet those involved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. When I was a Minister-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is not the point. I am not asking the Department to interfere with schedules or timetables. I am asking the officials about the steps the Department intends to take to ensure that the agencies under its remit act efficiently, make decisions immediately and stop the petty carry-on over a little place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My memory was that the most viable part of that line was from Athenry to Tuam. I clearly recall that when it came to us for a decision by Cabinet, one of my colleagues said we should not have done the Ennis to Athenry segment but should have done the Athenry to Tuam segment. We can check that out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Regional and Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (23 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My understanding of Trans-European Transport Networks, TEN-T, is that the fund was meant to drop money all over the place for everybody, but is there any money for the comprehensive network?