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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: The proposed Coast Guard Station at Greystones, County Wicklow, has progressed significantly. The Department of Transport is currently awaiting the tender evaluation report from the Office of Public Works (OPW), which is managing the project on our behalf. At this stage, a contract has not yet been signed. However, subject to the timely completion of the evaluation process and the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that, under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. This includes all application and scheduling matters. In that regard, the operation of the service does not fall under the direct...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that, under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. This includes all application and scheduling matters. In that regard, the operation of the service does not fall under the direct...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: Driver testing in Ireland is carried out directly by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to a standard that complies with the EU Directive on Driving Licences and it has been an offence for a learner to drive without appropriate supervision since 2007. This is an important life-saving law. A learner permit is not a driving licence, but a permit to be on the road for the purpose of learning to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. This includes all application and scheduling matters. As such, the information requested is held by the Authority. I have therefore...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 254 and 255 together. As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that my Department is committed to addressing the matter of learner drivers with multiple successive learner permits. It is intended to restrict eligibility to third or fourth permits, by requiring that the learner...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives both coronial data and collision data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: 403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse austerity measures made during the financial crash regarding FET learners payments, as many prospective students are not able to take up places on suitable courses as the payment they would receive is well under that of a full weekly social welfare payment, despite them having travel and food costs and other costs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: 827. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite the process of approval for givinostat, used in the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, as further delays could affect the ability of patients to retain muscular strength and the current process for drug approval in Ireland can take on average 617 days, during which time muscular dystrophy patients will have lost significant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: 840. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug dioctyl is not covered on the medical card scheme; if she is aware of the financial hardship this is causing patients; if there are plans to have this drug covered in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (17 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: 887. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to change capacity laws in cases where a person has a dual mental health diagnosis as many family members are watching on helplessly as their loved ones who lack capacity are not given necessary mental health treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32559/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: Kilkee Coast Guard Unit are not limited to operating solely within the confines of Kilkee Bay. The Kilkee Coast Guard Unit is permitted to and regularly operates, both for training and tasking, beyond the confines of Kilkee Bay. All Coast Guard Units including Kilkee Coast Guard Unit operate under a comprehensive safety management system which defines standard operating parameters....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise the Deputy that there is no statutory basis for rainbow pedestrian crossings in Ireland. Such crossings, the use of which cannot be enforced by An Garda Síochána, operate on a purely courtesy basis and are installed at the discretion of the individual local authority. ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that, under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. This includes all application and scheduling matters. In that regard, the operation of the service does not fall under the direct...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service, including the recruitment and deployment of driver testers. While my Department is responsible for the overall staffing sanction,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Driver Testing Service. Driving instruction in Ireland is delivered by Approved Driving Instructors registered with the RSA, having obtained the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister of State for International & Road Transport, Logistics, Rail & Ports, I wish to advise that under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) has statutory responsibility for the National Car Testing Service and the information requested is held by the RSA. I have therefore referred the Deputy's question to the RSA for direct reply. I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As Minister for Transport I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority, or NTA, has statutory responsibility for transport planning in the Greater Dublin Area, including County Meath. The NTA's Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area, which was approved in early 2023, sets out a framework for transport...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As the Deputy may be aware, the All-Island Strategic Rail Review was undertaken by the Department of Transport in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The Review’s Final Report was published on 31st July 2024. The Review sets out 32 strategic recommendations to enhance and expand the rail system in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 2050. The...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (12 Jun 2025)

Seán Canney: As the Deputy is aware, the All-Island Strategic Rail Review was undertaken by the Department of Transport in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The Review’s Final Report was published on 31st July 2024. The Review sets out 32 strategic recommendations to enhance and expand the rail system in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 2050. The...