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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: The Tánaiste does not understand the question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: Not for first-time applicants.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: This is about the fifth time I have brought this issue up. I am back to the passport and ID issue of members of the Garda identifying that they sign the passport application. I am back to the parent of a first-time applicant. The Passport Office is unable to get in touch with the garda who signed the application. The office has contacted the same Garda station four times. Surely at this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: What is the security dimension? Why would they contact a garda?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: I have a quick question that may or may not be pertinent. Perhaps somebody could come back to me on it. A constituent made a complaint to me when it was announced on Monday, 29 April that the No. 370 Bus Éireann service from Rosslare Europort to Waterford is to be updated. The update leaves Bridgetown without a service. Is that relevant at all to anyone here?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: This is pertinent to what another committee member said. It is about having a service that works for the people. My constituent believes that the NTA is behind this change and is trying to say there is a great Local Link service, which I do not disagree with. Locals will have to catch the No. 370 bus from Wellington Bridge. The drive from Wellington Bridge to Bridgetown lasts...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: The change has not been made yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: That is fine. I thank Mr. Ryan. I will go back to various decisions that have been made. The crossover between Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and the NTA can be confusing. Mr. Ryan or Mr. Creegan and I had a conversation yesterday about freight trains, passenger rail and one thing and another. Apart from the fact that it often appears that these are desktop exercises, when some...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: The question is are they ever presented to either NewERA or the NTMA before money changes hands, as they say.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: Is there input whereby it carries out a report or is it just a perusal?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: Is anything provided in writing?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: So there is something in writing.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: If the Committee of Public Accounts were to look for those documents, are they available?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: That is grand. I thank Mr. Doocey. I will have a look at that again and might come back to the committee. A proposal was presented to allow for a change to the train service with a stop in Wicklow on the Wexford to Dublin route. There would be a change in Wicklow, at which point the service would join the DART service. I did some analysis of my own. I was informed yesterday that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: Prior to my contribution, all my colleagues have said that the only way to get people out of cars and onto public transport is if it is faster. Usually, it just needs to be faster and not even cheaper. The quickest train from Wexford takes two hours and seven minutes. I live 30 miles from Wexford and can make it from my house to Dublin, via Wexford, in two hours. Most of the work the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: How long has that review been going on for?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: I am the public representative. Let me tell Ms Graham what my role is.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: I have carried out research based on the proposals.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: Ms Graham can respond when-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Verona Murphy: Let me get this in here. On the line to the north of Dublin, there are 139 trains from Monday to Friday. They come from Malahide, Howth, Drogheda and Belfast. There are 97 trains a day on Saturday. Wexford is served by four trains each Saturday. I asked Mr. Creegan what the population differential is, but he did not have a clue. There are 106 trains. There is a 40-train deficit between...