Results 361-380 of 29,149 for speaker:Eamon Ryan

Health Care Strategy. (11 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in implementing the primary health care strategy; if a proper primary health care strategy will deal with up to 90% of illnesses; the costs for such a health care strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15372/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date with hospital consultants on the renegotiation of their contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15373/05]

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the analysis his Department has carried out on the future tolling of the M50. [15771/05]

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister has my sympathy, having inherited the greatest mess in the history of transport, a mess which is not of his making. Last week we heard of the incredible waste of €20 billion expenditure on roads in terms of the building of 800 kilometres of motorway leading to this one road. I am sure the Minister will accept, as An Bord Pleanála and the Taoiseach have, that it will not work....

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: No one disagrees——

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: No one disagrees with barrier-free tolling. That is not the issue.

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Does the Minister accept that the position of the engineer consultants presented to An Bord Pleanála's hearing, the Dublin Transportation office engineers and the NRA itself was that such demand management measures should not be in the form of traffic lights on these freeflow junctions and that it would have to be a new form of tolling? Does he accept that his Department should carry out an...

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Does the Minister accept that we would also have to buy out the West Link?

Road Network. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: That use of future funds from the West Link toll bridge to pay for the M50 relates to the extension of tolling on the West Link bridge from 2020 to 2035. Given that the toll facility has no demand management functions and never can have, how can the Minister propose that approach when he admitted that by 2020 we will need some sort of demand management measures? Why is he tying us into a...

State Airports. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: I accept that the Minister must see the business plans. As of now, does he have an inkling as to whether the hotels should or could be kept in public ownership? He stated he had discussions with the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. Had he any communications with the Taoiseach on this issue? In any such communications, has the Taoiseach expressed a view on whether the assets should be...

State Airports. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Has the Minister had any indication from the Taoiseach?

State Airports. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Has the Taoiseach made that view known to the Minister?

State Airports. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: It is interesting in our new divided world to hear a response to a question regarding Cork Airport coming from Dublin Airport. It seems the business plans must come from Dublin Airport before we can hear them. Does the Minister agree that for lack of a small investment, in the order of €15 million, Cork Airport could have a navigational system which would allow planes to land even during...

State Airports. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: I beg the Ceann Comhairle's leave to ask the Minister to reply to the questions I have asked.

State Airports. (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: I am not trivialising the matter.

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

Eamon Ryan: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects to announce his new ten year transport plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15773/05]

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Transport the analysis carried out on the possibility of diesel trains operating on the proposed new rail tunnel connecting Spencer Dock and Heuston Station; the estimated cost for the building on this rail interconnector; and the length of time it will take to deliver such a facility. [15655/05]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (12 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Transport the budget that will be provided in 2005 for the purchase of new buses by Dublin Bus; if there is a standard frequency of service required on new quality bus corridors; and if the rollout of quality bus corridors in Dublin is being restricted by the lack of new buses to provide such levels of service. [15654/05]

Written Answers — Departmental Records: Departmental Records (18 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, when he is asked for information relating to matters (details supplied) which under a European directive such as Directive 2003/4/EU he is obliged to provide, he will, in conformity with that directive and the obligation therein contained to provide information from public entities, provide all e-mails...

Written Answers — Nuclear Safety: Nuclear Safety (18 May 2005)

Eamon Ryan: Question 121: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action which the Government has taken since assuming office to address the dangers from nuclear facilities overseas. [16513/05]