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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: Can Mr. Allen confirm that the board has investigated the issues in the anonymous letter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: The point is that Mr. Allen seemed to confirm it when he said there was a fishing trip abroad.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: The problem is that Mr. Allen is putting up the "gone fishing" sign to many of the people who have problems with public transport. I am not being rude. I am very concerned about his comments on the infrastructure but I will take the members as they offer. The issue is the shortage of money and the €5 billion paid to all the companies in the past eight years. The taxpayer is paying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: The clerk has informed me that there is no time limit on our meeting. We can remain here until 4 p.m. I intend to ask plenty of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I was just going to come to that. We can take the replies to Deputy O'Keeffe's questions and have a break for five or ten minutes and start with the questions from Deputy Munster. I am completely in members' hands. We will take the answers to Deputy O'Keeffe's questions and then break for a short period. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will suspend for ten minutes and then take the rest of the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I call Deputy Imelda Munster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: To be helpful, Mr. Allen may revert to the joint committee on the issue if he does not have the full details.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Deputy has asked an important question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: It will be acceptable if Mr. Allen reverts to us with the details.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is fair. I ask Mr. Allen to correspond with us as soon as possible on the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: What are these high levels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: What is the level of absenteeism?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: What is the national average?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: I propose to take Deputy Catherine Murphy followed by Deputy Barry. I know Senator Humphreys has been sitting here for a while, but that is the way the committee works. I apologise for that. Before we go on, I have a few questions. I will throw one to the witnesses now. They are three men. Of their 27 board members, only six are women. How do we address the gender balance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: There are two board members-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: On the list we have, two-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is just that we need to change. I include the political system in that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: We should agree as a committee to write to the Minister, and the witnesses should raise the matter with their boards as well. We must have proper gender balance. It is just not good enough not to have it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail, Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus: Chairpersons Designate (25 Oct 2017)
Fergus O'Dowd: On that point, if it is helpful, could the witnesses undertake to provide a special Oireachtas email address? Other State bodies do this. Members can correspond directly on a dedicated email address if they have Oireachtas queries. I think that would be helpful.