Results 1-20 of 167 for cork speaker:Timmy Dooley

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...forget we are still an island. Somebody who lands in Schiphol can get from there to Paris by train. In that instance, it may be a more favourable comparison. I have to believe that if Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports worked in much closer co-operation, some of the pressure on Dublin Airport could be reduced. There is effectively a self-fulfilling prophecy at the moment, where if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Where were those aircraft transferred to? Was it Cork?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...It makes eminent sense to develop University of Limerick further and bring to it a discipline that is not there. If we believe in the principles of balancing development throughout the State, then Cork, Limerick or Galway should be considered. Limerick is looking for this. We will push for Limerick because of what has evolved there. The ethos in Limerick is fantastic. It started out as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ..., time out of number, clubs and people attached to the organisation do wonderful work. I am delighted the Tánaiste has rowed in. It might have happened just because there was a good game between Cork and Tipperary. I have been at this a long time, as have others. We should have a debate in this House about that in the first instance. There is a wider debate about public service...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: ...gates that would help the user experience but it is getting close to capacity. DAA spoke about competition earlier. There were other views at the time about the separation of Shannon Airport from Cork and Dublin airports. I did not agree with it but it happened. Is there an argument for building a closer alliance between the three main airports in the State in Cork, Dublin and Shannon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Jacobs not accept that having Dublin Airport as the parent, gives Cork Airport an unfair advantage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I want Cork Airport to work as well. I have family in Cork and we all want to see the regions work. However, Shannon Airport is being starved to some extent. Notwithstanding the wonderful work that Mary Considine and her team are doing there, it is always against a backdrop that a relatively small amount of the kind of business I talked about - the transit and cargo - would make such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...occupies needs more space. So do the southern gates, which are also a bit of a mess. Whenever there is mention of increased capacity at Dublin Airport, people in the mid west, and I am sure in Cork although I do not want to speak for them, and in Clare in particular, sigh and say that if Dublin gets more capacity that will be the demise of Shannon. I would like to hear the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...past. If we had 17 million passengers going through Shannon, I do not think they would care what it is called, whether hub, spoke, wheelbarrow or otherwise. From my point of view, I never expect Cork, Shannon or anywhere else to be a hub. We are at 1.7 million passengers at the moment. If we could get that to 3 million passengers, it would make a massive change in the workforce around...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Overcrowding (27 Apr 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...trolleys in University Hospital Limerick's accident and emergency unit was 126. That was the highest ever in a hospital in the history of the State. Today, that number is 111. Yesterday, it was 113. Cork University Hospital had the next highest number yesterday at 63. That is a huge number and should not be that high. I suspect if we did not have the situation in Limerick, the people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Timmy Dooley: ...to dominate the entire sector. Airports such as Shannon have been left to wither on the vine. There was massive growth in passenger traffic prior to 2019. Dublin got the bulk of it and Cork, Mayo and Kerry got little bits of it.Shannon got precious little. From the time that Shannon was separated from Dublin, it engaged in predatory practices, it reduced landing charges and it grabbed...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Airport Policy (15 Dec 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...was not holding pace with that growth. Only 1.7 million passengers went through Shannon Airport in 2019. In 2007, there were close to 3 million passengers, or more, going through the airport. Cork Airport is at 2.5 million and Dublin Airport, the behemoth, has 35 million passengers going through it and is growing all the time. The effort now in rebuilding activity at all airports...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...household, they will save a lot more money. To achieve that, we will have to convince them. We also need to consider the fares on public transport. Fares for journeys between Limerick and Dublin, and Cork and Dublin, are expensive. The Minister of State needs to examine that.I am of the view that we should look to eliminate all fares on public transport for a period of five years in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...of people's transport needs. I live in a village in east Clare, in a development of 50 houses, and each of the two people in most of the houses goes in every direction, from Tipperary to Galway to Cork to Ennis to Shannon, every day. The Department is not going to be able to provide a bus service to Tulla that will meet the complex needs of the way people have chosen to base themselves...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...but I hope that in rebuilding to achieve 2019 levels of traffic at Shannon Airport, Mr. Ó Céidigh makes some fundamental changes to the foundations that are in place. In 2019, Shannon was losing competitive advantage to Dublin and Cork airports. To get back to the 2019 numbers would be good from this vantage point but Mr. Ó Céidigh will face a challenge creating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (7 Oct 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...That worked well, as it does with CIÉ, where there are three companies all under the CIÉ umbrella but working independently with some level of competitive tension. In the current climate, we must work with Dublin and Cork airports. It will take somebody like Mr. Ó Céidigh, who understands that relationship and sees the potential there, to do that. It goes back to...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Sep 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...the record a few paragraphs that relate to that. The letter states: As you are aware on a number of occasions an air traffic control service was not available at State airports due to the lack of air traffic controllers. Cork Airport closed for a period on July 25 and Shannon Airport on July 26. The closure of Dublin airport on August 6 was narrowly averted thanks to the actions of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...announcement by Aer Lingus that it will close its crew base at Shannon Airport. There is no timeline for the return of services at the airport and there will be a similar reduction of services at Cork Airport. This is a sobering reminder that notwithstanding the roll-out of the vaccine and the end of the pandemic being in sight, many businesses, particularly in the aviation and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...now the buzzword once again, however, and this means routing many flights through just one base. More than likely that base will be Dublin, much to the loss of Shannon, the west, the mid-west and probably Cork. While such consolidation may help to return airlines to future viability and profitability, it will also have a devastating impact on connectivity. If the regions of this country...

Seanad: Living with Covid-19: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...volume of AstraZeneca vaccine that is on the way. People should be allowed to travel. If there is somebody who has spent the past 12 months here in Dublin and his or her elderly parents are in Cork, Waterford, Clare or wherever have been vaccinated, they should be allowed to travel to see them. That is the reality. We can put restrictions on places such as Kilkee, Lahinch and Liscannor...