Results 12,481-12,500 of 31,374 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I will quite happily go into that, but it is a different-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I do not expect it to be published, but it will certainly commence this year. Covid-19 stopped a lot because no-one knew what-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Will the Chairman explain the question to me?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The recording in terms of-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The numbers we want to see or-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I expect it is an estimate. I will have to come back to the Chairman on that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: It does. I am very familiar with Adare and it is clogged with traffic. When that bypass goes in, and it is in planning at present, we should be radical in looking at mechanisms to really reassess the public space and possibly move away from through traffic. A village like Adare would really benefit from that sort of space.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: The reason I was concerned is that I saw the names on the board. If all six people were to get ten minutes each, that would run me into trouble.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I have to join a call to Limerick at 4.30 p.m.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Not at all. I did not want to let-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I did not want to let the people in Limerick down. My only concern was when I saw six names, I thought I would run late.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My officials inform me that the TEN-T review is looking at existing infrastructure. Subject to the strategic rail review, however, we will be able to go back to the European Commission and reconsider this aspect. If the rail review were to come up with recommendations in that regard, then that would help us in being able to go back and reopen this issue with the European Commission.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: My understanding is that there is flexibility, and we will use it. The strategic rail review is designed to give us that capability.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: That point is well made. To a certain extent, however, much of this is in some ways demand-led, although that might not be the right word. It does require-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: I agree with the Deputy. In the broader context of this planned climate transition, the fundamental underlying political reality we must live up to is that every place and every person matters. It cannot be a situation of rural versus urban. We must try to provide for both. Much of this would come down to local authorities saying they are not resourced and that they do not have the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: One of the strategic changes we have made is to give TII specific responsibility in respect of the national network. Greenways are connected to active travel; they are not separate. That body does undertake its considerations and operate in a national context, and that may help in connecting everything up.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: Those are exactly the riding instructions we will and should give to TII.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: We had a good meeting with representatives of the Irish Road Haulage Association, IRHA. They have a good reputation in respect of how they represent their members and how they have worked with the Department over the years. Even recently, in the context of some of the Covid-19 measures, the members of the IRHA played a helpful role in the context of the flexibility we needed. The same...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Eamon Ryan: One must be careful, regarding the rebates or similar schemes, to be mindful of the whole Fit for 55 approach in a European context. The European transport plan is to move away from such fuel rebates. It is effectively being said that they will come to an end. Therefore, there are no easy silver-bullet measures in this regard. I refer to the use of alternative fuels and alternative...