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Tourism Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I wish to share time with Deputy Jan O'Sullivan.

Tourism Industry: Motion (Resumed) (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on the critical topic of Irish aviation and tourism. I commend Deputy Mitchell and her Fine Gael colleagues on proposing this motion and highlighting the crisis in the global and Irish travel and tourism industries. As the motion emphasises, there has been a staggering decline in passenger numbers and tourism revenue in the past year. Air...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister will not oppose the amendment in that case.

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Is the Minister saying that by the end of 2010 the Commission for Taxi Regulation will be based completely within the National Transport Authority? The authority will then effectively be the regulator. I understand that according to the Bill that we put through the House, the current taxi regulator is the last such regulator. Is the Minister aware of the considerable unease in the taxi...

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I am relaying to the Minister the deep concerns I have heard from taxi workers in every part of the country - not just those represented by the Irish Taxi Council but also those represented by six or seven other bodies, including SIPTU. They all feel we need a coherent taxi service that is up to international standards and run in a different way. The continuous antagonism between taxi...

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: They asked to meet the Minister.

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: The remit of the Minister for Transport includes public transport.

Taxi Regulation. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: There is no harm in meeting people.

Road Traffic Offences. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: The best briefing I got on the Bill as it stands was from Ms Susan Gray, Ms Donna Price, Ms Ann Fogarty and Ms Teresa Leonard. They are great road safety activists from the PARC organisation and they are very anxious to meet with the Minister when the Bill emerges from the House. I wonder if he could facilitate such a meeting as these people have a deep understanding of the issue; each of...

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: During the controversy, was the Minister briefed by Mr. Michael O'Leary or others in Ryanair on the proposal for hangar 6? Does he have any information on where the much-talked of jobs were located? I did not notice it mentioned in any press release from Ryanair. We got a good report from Mr. Barry O'Leary of the IDA at a meeting of the transport committee. He mentioned that hangers 1 to 6...

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: She is still Tánaiste.

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: It appears Mr. Mueller and the Aer Lingus management team were on the verge of acting illegally in the context of the course they were allegedly going to pursue in respect of vulnerable cabin crew. It must be noted, however, that the wages and conditions for such crew appear to be set in Ryanair's headquarters. That is one of the difficulties that arises. I reiterate that ten aircraft -...

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: My final supplementary is related to the original questions.

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: The process is extremely slow.

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: And taking jobs out when it suits it.

Rail Accidents. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I support the call. We should have the three reports in full. The bit of information we have raises many questions. It reaches a damning conclusion but it raises many questions. Was the Minister shocked by the reference that the 2006 scour report, which Irish Rail conducted, decided it would investigate only underneath the piers six years later, in 2012? That seems an indictment of...

Road Traffic Offences. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: The public were shocked to learn that so many drivers had got away on this technicality. Moreover, when this was allied to the issues concerning non-Irish national drivers and drivers from Northern Ireland, people concluded that the penalty points system is a farce. Has the Minister made further progress in respect of the mutual recognition of penalty points with Northern Ireland?

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent decision to allow the Dublin Airport Authority to operate terminal 2 within the benchmark set by the Commission for Aviation Regulation; the reason he initiated and then dropped a facility management procurement process to find an operator for terminal 2 and thereby incurred a significant cost to the State; and...

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: Does the Minister not agree that this looks to the public like he has simply blown away €700,00? First, the Department spent €200,000 directly on a process which did not seem to offer any type of result. I understand three companies - Goodbody Corporate Finance, Matheson Ormsby Prentice and Mott MacDonald - were involved in that. Did they fail completely to offer any type of basis for...

State Airports. (24 Mar 2010)

Tommy Broughan: I have set out the reality.