Results 8,321-8,340 of 10,035 for speaker:Martin Cullen

Driving Tests. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The training will ensure uniformity and consistency in the standard of driver testing across the country.

Driving Tests. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The authority will train the testers. That is why we are setting up the authority. I am told by all sides, including internally, that it will achieve this. It will be done if there is a will to do it.

Driving Tests. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: I am an optimist. I believe that one can get through problems if one sticks to the facts.

Driving Tests. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: If one sticks to the facts the truth will always stand by one.

Driving Tests. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: One should never be afraid of the truth.

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9, 37 and 63 together. On completion of the recent EU inspection of Dublin Airport, officials from my Department and the Dublin Airport Authority received an oral briefing on the findings of the inspection. I have received a report from my officials on the outcome of that debriefing. In accordance with established procedures and practice, my Department, the...

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The security is to the highest standard. Some of the airlines said that the security facilities at Dublin Airport are among the best in the world. Clearly on this particular day there were lapses on the part of Dublin Airport and the airlines. As they were identified on the day, they were corrected and further enhancements have taken place.

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The National Civil Aviation Security Committee was constituted in 1974. From people in my Department I know this issue is taken extraordinarily seriously and regular checks take place. There were failures on that day but they were not catastrophic. There were specific issues tested that were not up to standard. I would not defend that and my views have been made well known. The security staff...

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: There is no doubt about it. All those factors contribute to the issues at Dublin Airport. Deputy Mitchell, and Deputy Shortall earlier, enunciated what people reporting on these issues do not understand. There are two capacity problems emerging at Dublin Airport. We have not passed them by because clearly they exist. One is airside for airline capacity, and that compounds the internal...

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: We need the terminal capacity by 2009 or 2010. Not only will that have an impact on a new terminal or the new pier D and contact stands that will be created, it will allow us to reconfigure the operation into a much more cohesive one. Deputy Mitchell raised an important point regarding transiting through Dublin Airport. It will have to be made easier for passengers to transit and this is...

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy has picked up on an issue that colleagues have raised with me during the past week, that is, that there should be at least one access point in the security system for those with no hand luggage. We agree with the Deputy on that point. I do not regard a ten or 15 minute wait as excessive. All Members have had the experience of travelling through airports throughout the world. I have...

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The key people on the committee hold high public office whether in the Garda or elsewhere, and I am not in a position to remove them from office. They are the best people.

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: We should be more balanced with regard to the issue on the day. By and large the security system was excellent. A few issues were pointed out. From my reading of the issue, the more serious failures were with the airlines, not within the airport. I say that without fear or favour. There are specific areas in aeroplanes that must be checked every time. Objects were placed in those areas that...

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: I have spoken to the officials in my Department who were taken aback because they had been carrying out regular checks and did not see these flaws. The flaws have been corrected in a way that will make it virtually impossible for those types of issues to occur again.

Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: No, but put in context, by and large all the security issues worked extremely well.

Rail Network. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: I thank Deputy Cowley for raising this issue. Deputies will recall that in June 2004 the then Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan, set up the western rail corridor working group under the chairmanship of Mr. Pat McCann, chief executive, Jurys Doyle Hotel Group. The establishment of the working group was primarily intended to provide a forum where those individuals and organisations who had...

Order of Business. (12 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: We have agreed to take it as legislation.

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (11 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: Section 21 of the Road Traffic Act 2002 provides an appropriate and comprehensive basis for the use of apparatus, including cameras, for the purpose of establishing evidence in respect of a range of traffic offences, including speeding offences. The Road Traffic Act 2004 introduced further clarity to the provisions of section 21 to affirm the use of radar guns, and other apparatuses that do...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (10 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: The Road Traffic Act 1994 provides that a member of the Garda Síochána may, where he or she is of the opinion that a person in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place is under the influence of a drug or drugs to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of that vehicle, require that person to go to a Garda station and further require that person to...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (10 May 2005)

Martin Cullen: I understand Iarnród Éireann is examining the feasibility study on the proposed Clonsilla-N3 interchange railway line, in consultation with Meath and Fingal county councils. The next step is for Iarnród Éireann to decide if and how it wishes to proceed with this project and I expect a report will be submitted to my Department in the near future. The question of my approval will only arise...