Results 9,761-9,780 of 20,758 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: Some. It needs to come into the weighting and criteria. The weighting process for all projects needs to be shown in tabular form.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: There need to be links to define why and how projects exist. If they change at any juncture, it should be stated why they changed, what influenced that and what policy changed that, including policies relating to population, infrastructure, the national planning framework, decisions on climate change policy, TII's interaction with the Road Safety Authority, or anything else. That is fine...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: The witnesses might want to respond to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: Nobody said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I know the process. I was a Minister in that Department for three years. I will happily take Mr. Walsh up on that suggestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate that. There is no issue with TII, I am trying to help it here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I thank Mr. Nolan for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: Can Mr. Nolan estimate, off the top of his head, the average cost for one of these schemes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: The cost is between €7 million and €10 million per scheme. If there are 150 such schemes we are talking about a significant amount of money, but it corresponds to what was projected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: There is an issue for me. I am trying to help the representatives of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. It might be a matter for the Chairman to talk to the Minister or the Department. We have considerable commentary on road safety on a range of other issues. This is the most glaringly obvious. I have to respect Mr. Nolan's commentary in the Committee of Public Accounts, where we verified...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I assume TII has prioritised based on danger.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: How does TII chose one over another?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I means no disrespect but I am more confused now. There are 150 projects each at a cost of between €7 million to €10 million, which is not Mickey Mouse money. There must be some criteria on which TII picks the projects. Are the TII representatives saying readiness to go is the main criteria?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: How did TII pick them? That is what I want to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: TII must have criteria for picking the top 50 over the other 100.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: Is there a list of schemes from one to 150?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I understand all of that. It is a simple question. There are 150 schemes. How did TII pick the first 50 over the other 100? It is like the previous conversation. There must be criteria and I want to see them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is phase two of the meeting, Chairman. I look forward to it because I need to see why Ardee was picked up – It was nothing to you with you, Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I want to know why one is picked over another.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is the power of being Chairman. That is fine. Obviously, there is a scoring chart. I need to see it. Can the TII representatives deal with my last two questions?