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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (28 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 782. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the commitment in the programme for Government for an additional €10 million for regional airports will be made outside of the capital plan mid-term review or if it will be dependent on approval during the review process; and the method by which the €10 million estimate for additional requirements for regional airports...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (23 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he will publish the new guidelines for wind farms. [9040/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (23 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will revisit the level of funding provided to midlands homeless service. [9041/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (23 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 262. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he is taking at EU level to advance the cause of the Palestinian people throughout the occupied West Bank and to curb the perceived destruction by the Israeli Government of Palestinian homes in the region. [9148/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Contracts (23 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 408. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the financing structure of the New Ross bypass PPP project, including the level of Exchequer funding; the level of private finance involved and the role of the European Investment Bank guarantee; if the assets will be in full public control; and the expected unitary payment charges to the Exchequer or associated with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 409. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the future of a bus service between Sligo and Dublin, which will incorporate the towns of Dromod and Rooskey. [9180/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (23 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed the impact of Brexit on the single aviation market with his EU colleagues or UK counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9461/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Undocumented Irish in the USA (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the negotiations he had with the new Administration in the White House to try to regularise the position regarding the undocumented Irish. [8707/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: I thank the Chairman and I welcome all our guests here this morning. I will begin with Ms Graham of the NTA. Who funds the NTA? What is its staffing number and what is its remit? In her opening address she said the remit of the NTA "is to regulate and develop the provision of integrated public transport services", as she has outlined it, "by public and private operators in the State, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Is the NTA required to regulate an integrated service outside of Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: The NTA either has a responsibility to ensure there is an integrated service outside the greater Dublin area or it does not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Will Ms Graham address the annual budget and staff numbers of the NTA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Ms Graham has said the NTA's role in issuing licenses is to determine timetables and stopping places for licensed services. If somebody, be it Bus Éireann or a private contractor, gets a license based on certain timetables and stopping in certain locations, then goes back to the NTA and shows it is not commercially viable, what consequences can the NTA impose as an authority to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: To be clear, there are no consequences for somebody who tenders for a particular route to service particular towns at particular times if they come back and say it is not commercially viable to continue. The NTA has no way of forcing them or penalising them. There are no consequences for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Ms Graham has said the NTA has a responsibility to regulate and develop an integrated public transport system throughout the island of Ireland. Would she not then feel that the proposed cuts to routes that came out of the talks on Monday would have the potential to cut and disintegrate the network? Has she been informed of these potential cuts? What is her position on these cuts? If these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Ms Graham spoke about route 5. What area did that route cover?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Ms Graham would seem to be at variance with the Minister who said on a radio programme in Waterford on 17 February that replacement services by the NTA may not be as frequent or as comfortable as those of Bus Éireann.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: When an Expressway service is removed, I suppose it is because it is not making money. I do not suggest the public transport service needs to make money. It needs to be subsidised but if it is not making money and the National Transport Authority, NTA, is tendering out a process, I assume it is subventing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: Ultimately, the State will end up paying-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Robert Troy: -----and perhaps subventing a private operator to operate a service in some instances, although perhaps not in that instance. When Bus Éireann moved out of Portlaoise, a private operator was brought in and subvented.