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Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We have set out a vision of what might be possible had we the budget and a sense of ambition. Our first priority should be providing rural public transport services. The Minister has stated that the Government cannot take up our suggestion of following the Swiss model, where villages of a certain size are guaranteed a public transport system. I will make two points in response. First, the...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I cannot support the motion. While I have the height of regard and respect for Deputies Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin of the Green Party, I do not agree with the motion they have put forward. It focuses on Dublin and touches on Galway, Cork and Limerick but there is a lot of territory beyond Limerick and Cork where people need their cars for transport. I agree with having more public...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

John Paul Phelan: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, is not allowed to respond.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

John Paul Phelan: He cannot speak twice during a debate and I am responding on his behalf. I thank the Deputies who have contributed. Notwithstanding some contributions, there has been a great deal of agreement on certain issues among the Members who have spoken and that broad agreement should be mirrored in support for the Government's counter-motion. We have heard differing views on the detail of...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...cé chomh práinneach is atá sé go ndéanfaidís beart de réir a mbriathar ó thaobh athrú aeráide de. Before the Minister leaves, he might remember that I raised the issue of light rail with him in 2017. I have written to him about this matter and I will be in contact again with him. He was very open to the concept of light rail at the time...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Thomas Pringle: The motion before us today is very much focused on Dublin. It is designed to address concentrated urban areas but fails to target towns and villages in rural Ireland. Donegal has no motorways, no railways and no county-wide public transport options for people. The rural link service is starting to address some of these challenges but it needs to be rolled out much more significantly to...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Michael Collins: ...issues in west Cork from one peninsula into another. The difficulty is to have a proper transport service. Last week on Leaders' Questions with the Taoiseach I raised the possibility of a park-and-ride system that would run from Clonakilty to Cork train station and Cork Airport and on to Cork city to alleviate the massive use of cars. This park-and-ride system could have buses running...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I thank the Green Party and Deputies Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin for bringing forward the motion. We welcome it and fully support its provisions. It is another timely and welcome motion covering a large swathe of transport deficiencies. Labour was the first party to propose the Citizens' Assembly and is supportive of both the citizens' recommendations and many of the calls within this...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I wish to refer specifically to the ongoing issue of rural transport. I know I have been beating this drum for quite so time now. The fact remains that rural Ireland is not serviced by an adequate system not to mention the urgent need for wheelchair-accessible transport or our European and international obligations. Those travelling to Cork city each morning from either the Bantry or the...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

John Brassil: Having in place regulations that are of no use to gardaí will not work. We need something that makes it compulsory for people to be seen. "Be safe, be seen" is our motto and I want the Minister to take that message very seriously.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Imelda Munster: ...to keep public transport on the political agenda. It is certainly not prioritised by this Government or by the Minister. A good public transport service is a cornerstone of most modern states and cities. Ireland and our cities are way behind in this regard. Our public transport systems are not up to standard and do not provide adequate services in many parts of the State. This is not...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

James Lawless: I thank Deputy Eamon Ryan for proposing the motion and I acknowledge the contributions already made by Deputies Troy and Cassells. The Minister is familiar with my face from across the Chamber. I often raise issues of this type and I am a one of his regular correspondents. I am particularly interested in the Kildare rail line. I wrote to the Minister when he was a Member of the Upper House...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Niamh Smyth: I will start by thanking the Minister for his visit to Cavan and Monaghan some months ago. He knows, even though I have only been a Member for a short time, that one of my bugbears is the lack of public transport. The Minister knows from his visit to County Cavan that we have the basic necessary infrastructure in place. There are rail lines which took traffic and carriages from Navan to...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I am sharing with Deputies Cassells, Lawless, Niamh Smyth and Murphy O'Mahony.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. It is an opportunity to take stock of the transport network in Ireland. Talk in here is cheap. People listening in to this debate this evening, those who are caught sitting on the M4 every morning coming into town or those who are caught in a congested city, or any of my colleagues, Councillors Cormac Devlin, Kate Feeney or...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: First, I thank Deputies Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin for bringing forward the motion. I will focus my comments on an aspect the motion pays attention to, namely the "vitally important public transport projects such as ... Dublin-Navan railway line". The Minister will be well aware of my continued references to this vitally important infrastructure. Two weeks ago, I stood on the...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Shane Ross: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann:” and substitute the following:“notes: — the ambition of Project Ireland 2040 in, inter alia, supporting compact growth, enhanced regional accessibility, strengthened rural economies and communities, sustainable mobility and the transition to a low carbon economy; — the integral role...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Catherine Martin: Is cúis áthais dúinn an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála anocht. The Green Party is tabling this motion because the way that we live and travel today is not sustainable for our families, our future, our quality of life or our planet. Recommendation No. 10 of the Citizens' Assembly was that "92% of the Members recommended that the State should prioritise the...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...' Assembly recommended that the State should prioritise the expansion of public transport spending over new road infrastructure spending at a ratio of no less than 2:1 to facilitate the broader availability and uptake of public transport options with attention to rural areas; — vitally important public transport projects such as the Western Rail Corridor, the Dublin-Navan railway...