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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Is there a record, for example, for the DART service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: They are counted. Does Iarnród Éireann have any data on the number of travellers on the inter-city routes? By the way, that is a total misnomer because they are actually inter-regional routes and the trains stop all over the place. Has the company any data for those routes, including Dublin to Cork, Dublin to Galway and so on, on the number of travellers who are, in fact, daily...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: No. They could commute and pay for a ticket each time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes, but has Iarnród Éireann got good data on how many of its customers are commuters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If we take the example of people who take the train from Dublin to Athlone, could 50% or 60% of them be commuters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Will be able to get that data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is critical information because it seems to me that the real growth in public transport use, particularly train use, is in commuter travel. It might be commuting halfway across this State, but it is still commuter travel. It is five days a week, up and down to work. I know somebody who commutes from Galway to Dublin to work. That is key because of what I said earlier about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: About 22 minutes on the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Getting out of Parkmore Estate takes an hour and a half on some evenings for many people in Galway. I checked here, and between 8 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., three rail services go from Athenry into Galway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Would Mr. Meade not think that it would be very attractive for people to commute as far as Athenry even if they left their cars there and travelled another 30 miles if there was a 15 or 20 minute service into Galway, as well as a matching service out of Galway in the evening? The time saving would be enormous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We are here as Members of Oireachtas Éireann. We are not here to discuss matters as is, because they are a disaster. We are here to plan for the future in major policy issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Defending everything all day here on an as is basis misses the point of this committee. What we are looking at is what could be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: There is a famous saying from Mr. George Bernard Shaw that some people see things as they are and others dream of things that never were and say why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank Ms Graham for her opening statement. Perhaps she could answer questions the Minister would not answer. Can she tell me the subsidy paid to Bus Éireann in 2016, give or take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Was it €40 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What was the subsidy paid to Bus Átha Cliath?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is give or take €60 million. Would Ms Graham agree that Bus Átha Cliath serves a population of about 1.2 million people, give or take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, the subsidy is about €50 per person per annum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Would Ms Graham agree that Bus Éireann serves a population of about 3.5 million, excluding Dublin? I am taking Dublin out of the equation completely, even though the NTA has many operations in the Dublin area, so that nobody can accuse me of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Therefore, the figure per head of population is about €11 per person. The NTA subsidises urban bus services in Dublin per head of population at a rate of between four and five times the rate for services in rural Ireland.