Results 14,601-14,620 of 26,373 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: The by-product is that Bus Éireann will end up having to take away Expressway routes. That will give rise to two consequences in the form of a loss of jobs and lack of competition on the route. A model is being created where, effectively, one operator will be put out of business. A large section of the population - those who are on free travel passes and who are rightly entitled to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want the witness to address the weakness in current legislation which does not allow the National Transport Authority to provide a public service obligation on the Expressway route or elements coming off the main route to towns and villages.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witness mentioned it was under the legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: What legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: When can Mr. Duggan get the empirical evidence in order that proper due diligence can be done on how routes operate and how the PSO system is working?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have limited time and the Chairman has been indulgent. It is impossible to assess the provision of public transport properly without empirical evidence on the use of the free travel pass. What is the breakdown, how often are these passes used, what routes are they used on and how many holders are OAPs or on disability or carer’s allowance or companion passes? The figure of 700,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long will it take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How quickly can a system be set up with all PSO licensed bus operators so that we can record empirical data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. How quickly will we be able to get proper data?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: When will we have proper empirical data on, for example, the weekly number of people using free travel passes on the Limerick to Dublin route? We could then know whether that figure is 80%, for instance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is not happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: My understanding is that this is not happening. Can the NTA instruct Bus Éireann that it should commence? It is in Bus Éireann’s own interests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is there no obligation on them to avail of the scheme? If private operators decide not to avail of it, the NTA cannot compel them to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the NTA decided in the morning to impose an obligation on all operators to use the travel pass scheme, can it do so under current legislation and regulation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are returns made by the bus operators that have a public service obligation, PSO, licence of the numbers who use free travel passes in a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the NTA know how many times a travel pass was used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: How would the NTA know that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Ms Graham believe that is accurate?