Results 41-60 of 6,857 for rural transport

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally. The NTA also has national responsibility for integrated local and rural transport, including TFI Local Link services, the Connecting...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...set down to the Minister for Health shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Minister for Rural and Community Development Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Minister for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing Businesses in Relation to Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...I am here now. It is great to have the witnesses here today. This is one of the things I am very passionate about. I am the Green Party spokesperson for enterprise, trade and employment and for rural development. I have worked with many small companies and social entrepreneurs over the years. I come from a family of social entrepreneurs and I have lots of friends around me who are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Climate Change Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The commitment to develop a National Demand Management Strategy for transport was included in the Climate Action Plan 2023 (CAP23). In April 2023, Government noted the approach to developing the Strategy, which included the establishment of a cross-governmental Steering Group chaired by the Department of Transport. The first meeting of the Group took place in May 2023 and included the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Duncan Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what he considers to be best practice in relation to consultation on route selection for greenways through urban areas, noting that his Code of Best Practice for National and Regional Greenways contains guidelines for engagement with landowners and interested groups in rural areas yet has no such guidelines for urban areas; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: The National Planning Framework (NPF) is a broad national plan for strategic planning and sustainable development of urban and rural areas, with the objectives of securing balanced regional development and a sustainable approach to the form and pattern of future development (a ‘compact growth’ approach). The NPF informs the preparation of strategies and plans at regional and...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (20 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Heather Humphreys: As part of Our Rural Future, the Government is committed to ensuring that the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) is funded into the future. The scheme funds repair works on non-public roads not normally maintained by local authorities. In 2023 alone, a record investment of almost €30 million was allocated to local authorities nationwide, bringing the total amount invested in LIS since...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...having regard to economic and employment trends. The strategy must also identify the regional attributes that are essential to enhancing regional economic performance, including the quality of the environment, cities, towns and rural areas, the physical infrastructure, and the social, community and cultural facilities. The strategy will set out proposals to maintain or augment these...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...not recruit and retain an adequate number of testers. People who want to go to work, go to college or do anything need to get on the road because, as the Tánaiste knows, we have no or very little public transport in rural areas. The RSA is allowed do this. It has contracts with the Government and should be made honour them and not be telling us it has recruited 75 when half that...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (7 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...over the next three years, to date it has passed 252,000 premises with full fibre. National Broadband Ireland (NBI) is currently rolling out of a high speed and future-proofed broadband network to primarily rural areas through its Contract with the Minister. The intervention area covers over 1.1 million people living and working in over 560,000 premises, including almost 100,000...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and current information, the Government shall also consult with the Joint Oireachtas Committees who have remits in the areas including in respect of: Housing, Waste, Water, Environment, Climate Change, Energy, Transport, Natural Heritage, Health, Children, Disability, Youth, Equality, Travellers, Migrant Populations, Refugees, Trade, Employment, Defence, The Gaeltacht, Rural Affairs,...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...and going from their communities and workplaces. That has to be factored in too. There will be more road accidents and road fatalities due to extra traffic on the roads. Of course, the public transport problem is not taken into account. Public transport is scandalous in rural Ireland. We have been hearing forever about plans for new routes and new this and that. We have had only...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Garret Ahearn: ...projects for the town of Clonmel. It is awaiting a response and a decision by two Departments. The library in Clonmel has made an application for library capital funding through the Department of Rural and Community Development. This is a really ambitious project to redevelop the main library in Mick Delahunty Square, Clonmel. It is a €10 million project and covers three floors....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Costs (5 Mar 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Joe O'Brien: I point out that the Local Link services have accelerated in their expansion and reach, in particular over the past couple of years. Figures from the Department of Transport show that numbers taking Local Link services have shot up by more than 360% between 2020 and 2023. It was a particular commitment in the programme for Government that we would triple the use of Local Link. I was part...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...ground. The Minister and Minister of State know that because the same things cross their own desks with regard to the struggles people have in accessing the most basic of services, particularly in rural areas, where you have to try to access services, where you do not have transport, and where there are other barriers in the way as well. On privatisation, I note where the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 61 together. Under Our Rural Future, Ireland's 5 year rural development policy, Government has committed to increasing the level of investment in the repair of non-public roads thorough the Local Improvement Scheme. This reflects the important contribution which the scheme makes to connectivity in rural Ireland. There is no other source of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flood Relief Schemes (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on any engagement her Department has had with the Department of Transport and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the enhancement of the LIS allocations for counties affected by recent flooding, particularly County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding in relation to public transport. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally. The NTA also has national responsibility for integrated local and rural transport, including TFI Local Link services, the Connecting...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (5 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The regulation of the small public service vehicle (SPSV) industry, including SPSV licensing, is a matter for the independent transport regulator, the National Transport Authority (NTA), under the provisions of the Consolidated Taxi Regulation Acts 2013 and 2016. I am not involved in the day-to-day operations of the SPSV industry. In June 2010, the NTA introduced S.I. No. 250 of 2010 -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (5 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 161,600 children, including over 135,000 pupils traveling on primary and post primary services, 19,800 pupils with special educational needs, and 6,800 pupils who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine are transported on a daily basis...