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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (13 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high speed broadband will be made available in an area in which a business (details supplied) is in operation and recently had to close for the day owing to lack of broadband service. [46797/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants (13 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria and availability of grant aid of up to €5,000 in circumstances in which a householder has to provide their own drinking water via a new well as an exceptional measure under the rural water programme as announced in October 2018. [46720/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blind Welfare Allowance (12 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if a reassessment of a specific allowance from the HSE in respect of a person (details supplied) from County Cork will be arranged. [46700/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (12 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 466. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct Bus Éireann to grant an exemption to persons over 70 years of age to be permitted to drive school buses on routes operated by their contractors in view of the difficulties in sourcing drivers. [46057/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: On that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I remind members to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the recording equipment. We will now go into private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I remind members and those in the Public Gallery to switch off their mobile phones as they interfere with the recording and broadcasting systems. I apologise on behalf of our Chairman, Deputy O'Dowd, and Deputy Jonathan O'Brien who are unavoidably absent. We are here to discuss BusConnects. I welcome Ms Anne Graham, Mr. Hugh Creegan and Mr. Tim Gaston from the National Transport Authority,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We can now have questions from members. Deputy Ó Broin is first if Senator John O'Mahony does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I am very good at giving everybody a chance. I usually go in order of party. There is nobody from Fianna Fáil to ask questions so it will go from Fine Gael to Sinn Féin before getting to Deputies Catherine Murphy, Ruth Coppinger and Joan Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We have to move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We will come back to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Does Deputy Rock have a question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: A few more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Does the Deputy know where the office is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Before we conclude, I have two questions to put. I am not from a city but a lot of what has been said applies to other places with regard to buses anyway. We know where the pinch points are. Is some of the change, for example, increased DART frequency to Greystones and train services to Maynooth and Kildare, on schedule to tie in with the changes to bus services? Will these changes be in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: What about commuter areas like Greystones, Rush or Blessington outside the city of Dublin? The NTA is providing a limited number of peak-only services but these are fast-growing areas. When will they get a proper regular bus service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Deputy Rock touched on the core bus corridor project. Obviously, it is running simultaneously with the revised bus network design. Who wins here? Is it the corridor or the bus network design with regard to determining the routes? Will they eventually tie in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Regarding the implementation of the overall project, our guests mentioned that the NTA has selected so many spines each time to be delivered but success at this point is also dependent on the orbitals otherwise everybody will still be going to the city centre. How does the NTA go about delivering this project?