Results 10,481-10,500 of 21,489 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: That goes across all politics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: That goes across all politics. The Chairman has a track record, to be fair to him. My second issue relates to something that all Deputies should be very sensitive towards, which is the very good, honest and direct evidence that Mr. Nolan gave in the other committee. I want to get an update on it because it is genuinely concerning. Everybody will be concerned about it. In the TII...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes, the Obama Plaza.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I am also talking about Roscrea. I have seen near misses with trucks and cars coming out. I ask Transport Infrastructure Ireland to look at this again. There have been a number of tragedies at Birdhill, including one recently involving a person I knew. There is an issue which I cannot define. It took a long time to create Birdhill because it was built on a swamp and the road dips but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: There is the solution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: Very well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is a very important road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: What Mr. Nolan considers detailed and what I consider detailed are obviously totally different.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I will make a suggestion on that. The criteria, the weightings, they way in which weightings are set up, the review periods relating to the criteria and weightings, and the interaction documented with regard to all other Government strategies, some of which I have listed, all need to be in this document.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is all good stuff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)
Alan Kelly: I welcome all that. I am not trying to catch Mr. Nolan out. I share something with the Chair. My issue is that what was brought forward was fine but, for me, it was not comprehensive. For TII to protect itself, dare I say it, its whole interaction with Government policies, it should state how that fits into the criteria and the individual weightings for every one of them, and it should...
- 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.