Results 181-200 of 561 for speaker:John Dolan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)
John Dolan: At least there is some pencil work being done behind the scenes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: I welcome the NTA. It will be important to future-proof this proposal. Not alone must it work but it must do so for many decades. It has to be something that can be built on. It is a new construct and foundation. However, it could end up not being future-proofed. I am concerned there is great pressure to conclude the project but it needs to be measured and measured again to make sure it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: I simply want to say-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: Yes. Will it be standard across the system? There is a cost to doing these things.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: When did that engagement start?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: Are there buses now on the production line or gone through the production line already?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: It is but fleet is fleet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: Fleet is part of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: That is fine. Correct me if I am wrong, but some or all of those buses are going to be part of this project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: No, the ones that are coming, or have recently come, off the assembly line that people with disabilities - as will be known from yesterday - have serious concerns about. Those buses are going to be part of the rolling stock for this project, as things stand now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: I am putting a big question mark around that. I am uncomfortable with having just heard that a consultation is going to be started.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: To be clear, is Mr. Creegan saying that concerns raised on the specifications, as we will call them, will be addressed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: These are buses that have been built and now the NTA is hearing some of the concerns?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: That is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: My question was specifically on Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: The Government and the Dáil have signed up to the Article 9 of the Convention. We are legally obliged to be moving in that way. Anything that does not move us in that direction, by a slip or whatever, is not a venial sin. It is unacceptable and we do not need to rehearse it any more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)
John Dolan: That is the point. Ireland has signed up and ratified the Convention since 19 April, so every public body needs to take that overtly into account.