Results 101-120 of 193 for speaker:Jim McDaid

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Mar 2004)

Jim McDaid: I do not think the Senator understands the point. If we pursued the Senator's point, Shannon would have no future because of the EU-US debate that is ongoing. The Senator is trying to leave us outside, suggesting that we do not talk to the US. How will the US know what we want when it is not talking to the EU?

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Mar 2004)

Jim McDaid: We are not doing that at all.

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Mar 2004)

Jim McDaid: We are doing that.

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (3 Mar 2004)

Jim McDaid: We do not own them.

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Mar 2004)

Jim McDaid: The PSOs are already doing that.

Seanad: Aer Lingus Bill 2003: Second Stage. (3 Mar 2004)

Jim McDaid: The main purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the employee share ownership plan agreed by the Government and Aer Lingus unions and to provide for a legal framework to facilitate a process of external investment in the airline in the event that the Government embarks on such a process. The Bill also includes an enabling provision for the establishment of new pension schemes by Aer Lingus...

Written Answers — Speed Limits: Speed Limits (17 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: Discussions are ongoing between my Department and the Society of the Irish Motor Industry, SIMI in relation to the proposed changeover to metric values for speed measurement by 31 December 2004. The requirements in relation to speedometers arising from metrication and motor vehicle type-approval form part of these discussions.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (17 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: The production of an NCT certificate when taxing a motor car has not been a requirement since 12 December 2001 when, arising from an industrial dispute at National Car Testing Service Limited earlier that year which affected testing, some motorists were experiencing difficulties in arranging tests in sufficient time to obtain the NCT certificate needed for their motor tax application. On the...

Written Answers — Air Traffic Control: Air Traffic Control (17 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: The European Commission's revised proposal to update Regulation 3922/91, which will encompass flight and duty time limitations, has just been published today. Until such time as the amended proposal has been examined it will not be possible for me or the other member states to formulate a position on this issue and this matter will not now be the subject of substantial discussions at the...

Seanad: School Accommodation. (12 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: As I read this response, it seemed to me a very positive outcome for Lucan. I thank the Senator for raising the issue and apologise on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science who is unfortunately unable to be here. On the Minister's behalf, I thank the Senator for giving me the opportunity of outlining to the House both the extensive actions already taken by the Department of...

Seanad: Teacher Training Colleges. (12 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: I thank Senator Fergal Browne for raising this issue and I agree with certain parts of his contribution. I apologise for the absence of the Minister for Education and Science, who asked that I relay his response to the Senator. The primary sector has experienced a shortage of trained teachers in recent years mainly as a result of the substantial number of teaching posts which this and the...

Seanad: Road Network. (12 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: I thank Senator Paddy Burke for raising this issue. I am well aware of the road between Castlebar and Westport as I worked in Castlebar hospital for a time and lived in Westport. Since the Department of Transport was established we have spent €1.2 billion per year on the national routes. I am from the west and I realise that the BMW region has lagged behind. Of the €1.2 billion, more than...

Seanad: Road Network. (12 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: As I said, the Department of Transport has only been in existence for a year and a half. While there was a certain lagging behind in infrastructure, there has been a 60% increase in spending in the BMW region this year. I am sure the matter will progress once the planning and design stages, for which the sum of €230,000 has been allocated this year, have been completed. In the next few...

Written Answers — Motoring Schools: Motoring Schools (10 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: Proposals being developed by my Department for the regulation and quality assurance of driving instruction will involve a test of the competence of individual instructors. A working group comprising representatives of my Department and of instruction interests has formulated the design of the standards that a driving instructor must meet. I am considering what arrangements will be put in...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (10 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: The fitting and use of speed limitation devices on goods vehicles over 12,000kg and buses over 10,000kg is governed by the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations 1993. Under these regulations such vehicles shall, at all times when used in a public place, be equipped with a speed limitation device the set speed of which does not exceed 85 kilometres...

Seanad: Public Transport. (4 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: I thank Senator Morrissey for tabling this motion. Private operators are required under the Road Transport Act 1932 to apply to the Department of Transport for a licence to operate a passenger road service or to amend an existing licence. All applications for new licensed services or amendments to existing licensed services are considered on an individual basis. The mechanisms and procedures...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (3 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: Active cruise control is a new technology with variants available on relatively few new vehicles. I am aware of the claims that such equipment may interfere with certain speed detection equipment used by the Garda Síochána and have decided to ask the Garda authorities for a report on the matter. Under the Road Traffic (Speed Meter Detectors) Regulations 1991 it is an offence to import,...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (3 Feb 2004)

Jim McDaid: The speed at which a speed limiter device is to be set in a vehicle is laid down in Directive 92/6/EEC. Under this directive goods vehicles with a maximum mass exceeding 12 tonnes are required to be fitted with a speed limiter so that the speed of the vehicle may not exceed 90 kilometres per hour. Directive 2002/85/EC extends the requirement to have a speed limiter fitted to include goods...

Seanad: Services for Victims of Domestic Violence: Statements. (28 Jan 2004)

Jim McDaid: I thank Senators for their contributions. It is important that the issue of domestic violence was raised in this House. Statistics have shown that because they are afraid, abused children will run to the abuser when a social worker approaches him or her. I regard myself as a supporter of the ideas propounded by John Waters. I accept all the statistics that have been raised today. However, the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matter. - School Accommodation. (13 Nov 2003)

Jim McDaid: I thank the Senator for raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to outline to the House, on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science, the current position on the construction of a new school building for the Christian Brothers national school in New Ross in County Wexford. In 2001, the board of management of the Christian Brothers school in New Ross submitted an...