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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the funding going to local authorities to help with road reinstatement and safety schemes for regional and local roads. [20408/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, given the horrendous weather over the past nine months, he will increase the total amount of funding in 2024 given to Tipperary County Council to help improve road surfaces throughout that local authority area. [20413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxis in Ireland, by LEA, as of 2 May 2024, in tabular form. [20826/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cross departmental group which is reviewing the feasibility studies referenced in Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 16 April 2024. [20827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 635. To ask the Minister for Health if a private supplier has been sourced to manage the new CNU in Nenagh as a stepdown facility for UHL. [20825/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the pay increase of 2.25% backdated to 1 January 2024 was not paid to employees of University College Cork in the end of April payroll, despite the assurance that he gave in Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 11 April 2024 that his officials had instructed HEIs on 4 April 2024 to apply the revised rates of salary and allowances....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses. I have a few technical questions that are very different. It will be no surprise to our witnesses that I will be concentrating on rural issues for a change. I appreciate that there has been a dramatic increase in connectivity in rural Ireland over the past few years. I acknowledge that. There are criticisms of other things but I really want to acknowledge that. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am talking about the timetable.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry that I will be in and out of the room. I am caught for time. The timetables are a disaster, to be honest about this. I would love to be getting on a train every morning to come up here and I cannot. There are hundreds like me. We need to look at that and I urge the NTA to look at that. The next issue is a bit of a bugbear of mine. It is called transport hubs. I was...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: There is a big difference between Cork and Nenagh though.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: We are going to disagree on the buses. We are not going to go down that route again. The town centre, in relation to the number of people, is moving because there has been a lot of development there. I understand there will be surveying done of buses. I hope a certain percentage will go down to the train station. Honestly, there is not a human being in Nenagh who understands why buses...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Why? I am glad the NTA did the pilot but what were the findings? Why was it not successful?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I understand all that. What was the failure?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I understand. The amount was €6,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: So where is the only one that is actually operating?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Ms Graham can come back to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Why did these fail?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Let me tell the NTA how to make itself heroes in rural Ireland. I say this on behalf of anyone who is a Deputy for or representative from rural Ireland. There is a massive problem in rural Ireland when it comes to taxis and hackneys.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Let me finish. There is a colossal problem. It is often seen to be the last thing on the agenda of the likes of the NTA. I am not saying it is but I am saying that is the perception. Trust me. I have been down this road. Will the NTA please put this up? The witnesses will hear many people talking about lots of issues around Dublin and urban areas, but people who live in rural parts of...