Results 15,721-15,740 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress to date of decentralisation to Drogheda, including the progress in relation to sites selected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33375/08]
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 156: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that heritage trees listed for preservation in the Drogheda development plan and cut down by a developer had no protection due to the failure of the local authority to implement tree protection orders; his views on such a failure; if he will communicate this...
- Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on correspondence from a committee (details supplied); and if he will assist it in being allowed to fish for cockles at Annagassan, County Louth when the season opens. [32887/08]
- Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Transport if additional public expenditure is requested or planned for the Dublin Port tunnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32959/08]
- Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: There is serious concern regarding the cost of the port tunnel project in view of the several significant changes that have been made by the NRA. These changes have not been identified individually to me but there are clearly cost implications. They arise as a consequence of an internal report compiled by the port tunnel operators, EGIS, which indicated the existence of serious issues...
- Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Did the report to which the Minister referred involve an independent audit or was it an in-house report? Will he publish it or offer us a brief summary of its findings? Is he absolutely satisfied there are no safety issues in regard to the operation of the tunnel, particularly in terms of the Scada system? That system cost â¬30 million to install and the evidence of the internal report...
- Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Will the Minister make the report available to the House?
- Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Will he provide a summary of the findings?
- Public Transport. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he is taking to open the Dublin bus market to further competition and to increase bus capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32957/08]
- Public Transport. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister's commitment to reforming the 1932 Act. This matter was raised during the DTA debate. When will this legislation be before the House? Will it be this term? The second issue I wish to raise concerns Dublin Bus abusing its dominant position in the marketplace. The Circle Line company went out of business under the present system. One of the reasons for this was that...
- Public Transport. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: I acknowledge what the Minister is saying but I do not accept that he cannot take action against Dublin Bus. Even if the action results in a court fine, whatever that is, the Minister and the Government must say to Dublin Bus that it will not get away with abusing the rights of consumers to have a choice, the rights of private operators to run these buses and the right of people to stand at...
- Public Transport. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister put the statutory powers in place.
- Public Transport. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: It did, but there has been no action.
- Public Transport. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: In the first instance.
- Road Network. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Hear, hear.
- Driver Licensing Regulations. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister of State has been asleep for a few weeks.
- Road Safety. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: The credibility of speed limits is necessary for the credibility of speed cameras. A number of speed limits throughout the country must be examined. There is a variation of speed limits in places and outside some schools it is 80 km/h and outside others it is 60 km/h or 100 km/h. We need lower speeds in certain areas. I have been told by a county council official that the lowest speed...
- Dublin Port Tunnel. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: The key point about cost is the question of accountability for safety. The SCADA operating system has been deemed unsafe in the context of its design, architecture and every other part of it. Earlier, the Minister said he had sent a report to Brussels on the safety of the tunnel but he has refused to publish it. The report should be available and to that end the Minister should lay it...
- Dublin Port Tunnel. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: As Minister for Transport, the document issued from his Department concerns a serious basic policy â the safety of the tunnel â yet he is not committed to publishing it for the Oireachtas. It does not make sense that it can go to Europe but cannot be read here.
- Dublin Port Tunnel. (1 Oct 2008)
Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely.