Results 10,661-10,680 of 19,173 for speaker:Shane Ross
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I want to be helpful in this situation. I do not want to be partisan in any way either, because I do not believe that is my job. If either party believes that there are pre-conditions then perhaps the WRC or the Labour Court should be the judge of whether or not they are. It is my understanding that there are no pre-conditions. When the chief executive appeared before the committee he...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: The letter has been issued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: It is already out there. Whether that is a good or a bad thing I do not propose to comment on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Is the Deputy asking me a question or making a statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I will appeal - not advise or instruct - to both parties to go to the table with a blank sheet of paper. Would that satisfy the Deputy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Sorry, perhaps the Deputy would repeat the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I do not know the answer to that question. The Department of Social Protection administers the scheme. It has nothing to do with me, but I will try to find out the answer for the Deputy and let her know. I do not know. Bus Éireann gets approximately €20 million for the free travel scheme, or is that part €12 million? Bus Éireann overall gets €20 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: The NTA is the regulator of the bus market. It makes the decisions about licensing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Yes, but it operates the licensing. Some reports claim that the NTA has saturated the commercial bus market through licensing. I do not understand the saturation point, which is often made by people in this forum and elsewhere. The figure, which is out in the open, is the correct one. The NTA has granted eight licences and refused 11. That was in a five-year period from-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Yes, but that is not saturation. It was over a five-year period to the end of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: There is no saturation at the moment. Quite the opposite.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Yes, but in some ways it is a reflection of the great success of the expansion in the bus market that so many licences can be sustained.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Yes, except for Expressway. The Deputy is right. This is the problem with which we are wrestling. There is an expanding market with many more customers and one particular-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: -----route that is not working.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Be careful. Do not be silly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I cannot-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: No. That has not gone anywhere because it was not a precondition. What was said was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Let me finish my sentence, please, Deputy. I told them to go into the negotiations with a blank piece of paper. I am not saying to anyone not to hold those beliefs. I would not ask the trade unions or management to do that. They should not discard what they believe in for a second, but they should go there with a blank sheet of paper. Those are not preconditions.