Results 1,881-1,900 of 2,099 for speaker:Ivor Callely

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: Those involved in the process are genuinely trying to resolve some of the difficult issues presented by a capital city, enjoying such an economic boom as has Dublin for a number of years, and accounting for people with disposable incomes who have second and third cars at a time when the infrastructure between the canals has not changed. This has given rise to a problem. While it should be...

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: That may be so but at present there are visual checks involved.

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: Senator Brian Hayes raised a large number of issues associated with the NCT. He said the accident record — I would like him to let me have the statistics — bore no relationship to the age of the vehicle.

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I apologise. I thought his point was that the accident record bore no relationship to the age of vehicles. That is not the information I have available. As regards the question of service and fail and the fact that the recheck should be free, I understand that less than 50% of all retests are charged. That means over 50% are free.

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I am not going to respond to every individual point made, so I ask Senators to be mature and responsible about this debate and not cherrypick. People may decide to continue to return to a test centre to discover every problem their cars have, but there is a system in place. If no work involved, it is free and if there is work involved, a charge applies. The last report was published in 2001...

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I understood when I asked if there was a time limit——

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I was told there was no time restraint.

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: My Department monitors all aspects of the operation of the NCTS to ensure it delivers a car testing service to the required standard. To assist the Department in the function, a supervision services contractor has been engaged. The supervision services contractor is a consortium involving the AA and PricewaterhouseCoopers who have all the available engineering, financial, legal, IT and...

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I said I was surprised at the reference to such concern being widespread.

Seanad: National Car Testing Service: Motion. (3 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I invite the Senator to bring evidence of such a nature to my attention.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I propose to take Questions Nos. 126, 132, 144, 163 and 178 together. I am deferring any decision about supercube trucks and vehicle height in general until I have had the opportunity to consider the views of all parties with interests or concerns in the matter. To assist me in this process I will shortly publish a consultative paper that will outline the main issues and that will invite...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: On behalf of the State, NCTS carries out periodic roadworthiness tests on passenger cars that are four or more years old in accordance with Directive 96/96/EC. I have no plans to include the inspection of tax and insurance certificates as part of the NCT or to involve NCTS in checking tax and insurance certificates generally.

Written Answers — Heavy Goods Vehicles: Heavy Goods Vehicles (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: I am aware from the media reporting of this inquest of the jury's recommendation concerning a review by the freight industry of blind spots around high vehicles. Last month the Irish Road Haulage Association, the National Safety Council and the National Council on Ageing and Older People launched a joint safety campaign targeting HGV drivers and vulnerable road users, particularly older...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: At the Transport Council in Brussels on 11 June last, the council reached political agreement on its common position on the Commission proposal to replace the existing drivers' hours rules. Following this political agreement, the text is subject to finalisation by legal and language experts in all of the languages of the community before the common position is formally adopted. This is...

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: National Car Testing Service Limited holds a ten year contract until the end of 2009 to carry out testing on behalf of the State. The arrangements for car testing after 2009 have not yet been determined in any detail. The contract provides for independent monitoring of NCTS by a supervisions services contractor, SSC, which involves financial legal and engineering experts drawn from PWC and...

Heavy Goods Vehicles. (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: Supercubes and other similar height vehicles can, in comparison to lower vehicles, present additional challenges, particularly with regard to road safety, rail safety and environmental damage. However, they differ essentially from road haulage vehicles in general only by reason of their greater than usual height. This difference gives rise to concerns that the use of such vehicles, combined...

Heavy Goods Vehicles. (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: Deputy Crowe posed a huge number of questions and, in view of the time constraints, I will not be able to answer all of them. He asked about the number of trucks currently operational in the haulage fleet. I draw his attention to the surveys carried out by the Dublin Port Company and the National Institute of Transport Logistics, one of which relates to the period from October 2002 to July...

Heavy Goods Vehicles. (2 Nov 2004)

Ivor Callely: On whether there are matters other than height restriction to which consideration could be given, as a person who thinks outside the box, I believe there are. In the coming weeks, the Department and I, working with the stakeholders, will be in a position to commence consultations on reaching consensus and a conclusion that will be satisfactory to all concerned.

Written Answers — Haulage Industry: Haulage Industry (19 Oct 2004)

Ivor Callely: The holding of a certificate of professional competence, CPC, is one of the requirements introduced by the European Council Directive 74/562/EEC for any person wishing to engage in the occupation of road freight and passenger transport manager. To comply with this requirement there must be some person in the haulage company acting as transport manager. This person must hold the CPC and will...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (19 Oct 2004)

Ivor Callely: Road traffic law on the drawing of trailers by motor vehicles is set out in Part 4 of the Road Traffic (Construction and Use of Vehicles) Regulations 2003. The regulations contain no specific prohibition on the drawing of a trailer by a two-wheel drive vehicle and I have no plans to introduce such a prohibition.