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Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport the specific budget that is planned for the sustainable transport plan; the timeframe associated with each individual action point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6022/09]

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I apologise for being late but I was studying my notes for the first priority question. As a former teacher, the Minister will understand that sometimes one can spend too much time on research. Sustainable transport means sustainable living and while the weaknesses in the report are the failure to set deadlines and make provision for funding, a radical plan is needed using joined up thinking...

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Dublin Transport Office produced a plan some time ago, in which it outlined diagrammatically the massive growth in the GDA and compared that to what might have been if proper land use planning had been adopted. Does the Minister agree a radical plan is needed for the GDA, particularly inside the M50-metro west corridor with all the brownfield and greenfield sites developed first before...

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport if he plans to implement all recommendations of the Deloitte report on the cost and efficiency review of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann; the timeframe he expects to be assigned to these actions; the action he will take in the event of non-compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6021/09]

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Is it not the case that even at the height of the boom the number of people travelling to work by bus was dropping? I believe it decreased by approximately 3% in 2005. It is anticipated that the number travelling by bus will decrease further and now 290 Dublin Bus workers have been made redundant and 120 buses that the taxpayer bought are to be mothballed. What will happen to those buses?...

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Gabh mo leithscéal a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I do not believe I have had my three minutes.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: However, it is my question.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thought there were six minutes for the whole question.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: If I have had one minute——

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have not been speaking for two and a half minutes, surely.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Therefore, I still have half a minute left. I may be working by a different clock from everybody else. If I may I will put the boot in, in the political sense. The job losses could be reversed by reorganising the routes and allowing private enterprise to come in and re-employ those people on buses that are to be mothballed.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have no problem with that. However, listening to Deputy Broughan, I thought he spoke for much longer on his question. Maybe I got it wrong.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: OK, teacher, I take my pain.

Public Transport. (17 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's fairness. The key point about the Deloitte report is that significant work practice changes are required. I accept that the Harristown garage is one of the issues on the Finglas route. Dublin Bus is losing €2 million each year on that route. If it were to reorganise it, some €2 million could be saved. If there are 14 generic routes, Dublin Bus...

Recapitalisation of Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland: Motion (12 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: People want the old order to change. Under this Government nothing has really changed. Yesterday we saw the evidence of the brass-necked Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance who had not read a critical report on our financial health and what was going on in our banks. He failed miserably in that test. We see no sign of Fianna Fáil's brass band, the Green Party, whose members were here...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: For the first time.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister gave a commitment last night.

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) (11 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will share time with Deputy Neville and Deputy Reilly. Team work implies that everybody works together; it involves people working to a particular and agreed objective. Most of all, it involves consent, effort and everybody rowing in the same direction, like a rowing boat team in a race, towards the target of better health for everybody. I can offer to the people of the mid-west my...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: How many copies of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report were delivered to his Department? When was a copy of the report given to the Taoiseach? Did he get a separate copy of the report? The world is in a financial crisis, as is our country. The Minister has plenty of advisers to brief him, but the buck stops with him. Does he think it is credible that he did not read every one of those 720...

Financial Transactions (11 Feb 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I ask the Minister to answer my questions.