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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The Deputy has a friend for life already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The Deputy's time is up but he may keep going. This will be his last question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I ask the Deputy to be brief. I will let him back in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: We talked about the priorities and ambitions. Mr. Strachan might comment on where he sees the biggest challenges. Although he has probably addressed them somewhat, the issue of bus drivers and mechanics is becoming quite a big problem. Please touch on airport services, because the larger a modal shift where we can get away from people driving their cars to the airport, the better. We can...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, and cycling as well, which is under your remit, in terms of cycle lanes and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The more people use those services, the more frequent the service can be made, which leads to a better service. The opposite applies as well. Take the example of low-density housing. I remember being in by-elections in areas not far from Dublin, where houses were being built, one or five to the acre, and then demands were being made for a very good bus service, but there was very few...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Like MetroLink and Dart+.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The N 11 QBC was a game changer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is fear of the unknown as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I was that person a while ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: In a city the size of London, that is a lot of people
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I made that very point to management of Dublin Airport before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: To be fair, management at Dublin Airport has said that it is trying its best to get as many bus services as possible. However, that is also your role to licence more people and put pressure on them to deliver those services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is probably one of the few capital cities. I can think of many airports that do not have rail lines, but not too many capital cities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Strachan does not need to comment now but more night buses would solve some of the taxi problems. Last week, we discussed this with the NTA chief executive and others. A 24-hour Luas is not possible because some time is needed for maintenance of the track. There are areas that would not necessarily have brilliant bus services during the day but at night operate fantastically good...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I will ask some questions and then we will conclude because I am conscious Mr. Strachan has to make his way home. Dublin Bus used to have an app and Transport for Ireland now has the TFI Live app. I am not sure the TFI Live app is as intuitively wonderful as it might be. That is not a criticism because I know these things take time. There are about 30 stops on the route to the airport and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: There is a shortage of drivers and, more so, mechanics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is for the NTA to tell the Government and this committee that we need to do more apprenticeship programmes and provide more incentives to get people to consider working in the transport industry. It is not exclusive to the public transport industry. It also affects haulage and freight which also need such skills. That needs to be on the NTA radar because even if it had as much money as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Those would be BusConnects and various others.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)
Gerry Horkan: While this is not an issue for today, the committee would like to know what the different areas are and what people are doing. Are the 260 people all at a management or administrative level? It would help us to understand if we were told how many of them are dealing with PSO transport, licensing, the management of active travel projects and so on. That is probably a question for Anne Graham.