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Seanad: Rail Services. (17 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: I thank my good friend and colleague, Senator Kitt, for raising this timely matter. Senator Kitt held my hand during my first weeks, months and years in the Oireachtas. He showed me the ropes and we shared an office.

Racist Attacks. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter on the Adjournment. I am deputising this evening for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform who is unable to be present due to other commitments. The Minister has condemned in the strongest possible terms the disgusting and cowardly vandalism and daubing of Jewish landmarks in south-east Dublin in the past 48 hours. He has sought and...

Irish Prison Service. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue and I will ask my colleague, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, to take on board his concern regarding attacks on members of the gay community and pursue the matter with his officials. The Deputy referred to a three-year crisis in the prison system. There has been no three-year crisis in the Prison Service. Indeed,...

Irish Prison Service. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: A site for a new prison campus to replace the Mountjoy complex has been purchased. Deputy McDowell is also planning to build a new southern prison at Spike Island to replace the antiquated Cork Prison. Furthermore, work is under way to complete the introduction of humane special observation cells in all prisons, doing away with the former practice of distressed prisoners being kept in padded...

Irish Prison Service. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: I gather that he would not do so either. Anyone who believes that there is another forum beyond the Civil Service Arbitration Board where something extra may be gained is not living in the real world. We cannot compromise the integrity of the whole industrial relations process, which has served us so well and must continue to serve our public services in future. As the Deputy knows, the...

Irish Prison Service. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: The staff that remained in those institutions following their mothballing last year have been notified of their transfer to other institutions and arrangements are well advanced for the permanent redeployment of all staff temporarily reassigned from the Curragh and Fort Mitchel.

Irish Prison Service. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: The two Prison Service open centres at Loughan House and Shelton Abbey will close, one in October and the other in November 2005. It is important to record that the Minister intends to replace them with open centres for persons on temporary or early release from prison, and they will be managed and operated outside the Irish Prison Service. He plans to expand the new open centres by up to...

Irish Prison Service. (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: In that case, I will be happy to provide more detail to Deputy Costello should he so wish.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: In December 2004 I initiated a wide consultation process on the possible introduction of a maximum height standard for vehicles with the publication of a discussion document and an invitation to interested parties to make submissions. As outlined in the discussion document, a range of factors of national importance such as business competitiveness, rail safety, environmental and quality of...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: Developments at EU level will result in new heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, having to comply with higher standards in relation to the fields of vision of drivers. EU Directive 2003/97/EC, which harmonises the rules relating to the type-approval of devices for indirect vision on motor vehicles and of vehicles equipped with these devices, provides, inter alia, for an extension of the field of...

Written Answers — Vehicle Licensing: Vehicle Licensing (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: If the Deputy could let me have the registration number of the vehicle in question, I will advise whether the vehicle is covered by a road freight carrier's licence issued by my Department. Enforcement of road freight carrier licensing is undertaken by both my Department and the Garda Síochána while enforcement of the vehicle safety requirements of the Road Traffic Acts is a matter for the...

Written Answers — Parking Facilities: Parking Facilities (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 146 together. Park and ride is included as an element of the Dublin Transportation Office, DTO, transport strategy 2000-16, A Platform for Change. Where their use is appropriate, such facilities need to be designed and implemented in association with other measures, such as public transport improvements, traffic management and parking controls. A Dublin...

Written Answers — Vehicle Testing: Vehicle Testing (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: There has been a press report to that effect. I have asked my Department to obtain a copy of the British agency's report. Motor vehicles must comply with a range of requirements while being used in a public place. These requirements are set out in the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) Regulations 1963 to 2002, Road Traffic (Construction and Use of Vehicles)...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: Notices concerning the public consultation process for the mid-term review of the national car testing service were placed in both national and local newspapers. The notices invited submissions and suggestions for changes in the car testing services and outlined that they may be submitted on-line at www.nctsreview.ie, in writing to NCT review, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wilton Place, Dublin 2,...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: The number of drivers who were found by the inspectorate in my Department to be driving vehicles that were not covered by a road freight carrier's licence in each of the past five years is as follows: Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Number of drivers 55 39 120 154 159 Regarding tachograph offences, the position is that my Department records information on the number of tachograph...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: Arising out of advice from the Attorney General that the existing regulations on mobile phone use by drivers may be ultra vires, the use of mobile phones while driving is under examination in my Department in the overall context of in-vehicle information and communications technologies. Subject to the outcome of that examination, it is my intention to include proposals related to the use of...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: I refer the Deputy to Question No. 278 answered on 10 May 2005. The Department does not provide grant assistance for persons involved in the operation of a road haulage business.

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (12 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: In accordance with EU Directive 96/96/EC, passenger cars are required to undergo a roadworthiness test when they are four years old and every two years thereafter with the test due dates determined by reference to the date of first registration of the vehicle. In the case of taxis the national car test schedule is determined by reference to the taxi licence application and renewal dates. As...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (11 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: My Department does not compile data on test activity or outcomes for individual test centres. Data on test activity, pass rates and top failure items for the car testing service since 2000 are available on the website maintained by National Car Testing Service Limited, the address of which is www.ncts.ie . My Department is satisfied that the rate of re-testing and the fees associated with...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (11 May 2005)

Ivor Callely: The sole basis for determining the outcome of a national car test is the assessment of the vehicle carried out by the vehicle inspector in accordance with the requirements set out in the National Car Test Manual, published by my Department. The setting of failure targets for individual test centres or for the service as a whole would be inconsistent with the basis on which test outcomes are...