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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I often say that we need to relieve Dublin and revive the rest of the country. That is really what we need to do.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: One way to do that relates to the A5 road, which while most of it runs through the North, goes from County Donegal to County Monaghan. These are parts of the country that have been very much left behind by successive Governments. What has been done the Minister's officials regarding the works on this road? The Minister will be aware that Sinn Féin tabled a motion on this a number of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the funding structure for TII projects; how funding is drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43059/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I wish to ask about the funding structure for Transport Infrastructure Ireland projects and how that funding is drawn down. The Minister will have seen the article this morning in the Irish Independentsuggesting that the failure to invest in road projects could lead to up to 77 deaths in five years. It is a stark reminder that when projects are approved to be advanced, we need to advance...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I am aware of how the system works or in many cases does not work. It certainly does not work efficiently and appropriately. Since the change of government, there has been a change in how the Department of Transport allocates funding. It is very much done on a phase-by-phase basis. Only when one phase of a project is completed can it try to draw down the funding for the next phase. That...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate that and I understand that there was a change in emphasis but that is not what I am talking about here. I am talking about a change in the mechanism allowing Transport Infrastructure Ireland to deliver these projects. It is finding that it is complicated by the phased system in place which is delaying the delivery of these roads. The Minister spoke about the increase in costs...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: We can discuss rural transport another day. This is the issue I am talking about.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: A possible 77 deaths.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: The main issue that many people are looking at in respect of this is the reduction in speed limits on various roads around the country. We certainly need to see that. There is no big opposition to it. However, people are concerned that if the law is not proportionate, it will often not be complied with. We can all recognise this. Many Deputies will know people who were given a speeding...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate that. I understand that the local authorities will examine each particular stretch of road and find an appropriate speed for it. Many stretches of our secondary roads are not safe to travel on at the standard speed limit of 80 km/h. The speed limit needs to be reduced in those cases. We need to see an appropriate means by which this can be done. The local authorities need to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on road safety measures being considered and implemented, including a reduction in speed limits. [43058/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I apologise for my late arrival. There was an accident on the N4 and it delayed things this morning a bit. My question is related to that. It is on the safety measures that are being considered, particularly on the issue of speed controls and so on. I ask the Minister of State if he will make a statement on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that a portion of the Luas line, which is expected to extend into Finglas, has not been included in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43066/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (5 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has undertaken a review of the availability of charging points for electric buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43067/23]

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: I thank Deputy Funchion for putting down this motion. As has been said, it is timely in the context of the children going back to school in September and we have the issue of childcare in crisis throughout the country, it has to be said. That is the reality people are facing. I listened to much of the debate. I do not in any way doubt the sincerity of the Minister or anyone in the...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Martin Kenny: This school transport issue goes back some time. In fact, I remember the first school I started in was a little parish school in Carrigallen. Then, it was centralised into the central school in the parish. The smaller schools that people could walk to closed and the deal was that everybody would be bussed to the central school in the parish. That is how it happened across all of rural...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Kenny: We will not get answers like that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Kenny: That is not much good to us.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Kenny: I understand.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate the opportunity. I wish to raise with the Tánaiste the issue of services for children with intellectual disabilities. I sent an email to community healthcare organisation, CHO, 1 on 28 July. I will read a part of it: I am writing with regard to a family living in [Leitrim]. The daughter, Maggie ... (aged 10 years) has yesterday been discharged from CAMHS due to her...