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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Holly Cairns, leader of the Social Democrats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I have run out of words to describe the horror unfolding in Gaza and now in Lebanon. This week, I and millions of other people, watched a young man in a hospital tent burn alive. He was still attached to an IV drip and was reaching out his hand for help. The Israeli army had targeted a missile strike on tents in the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Not content with destroying all the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: What is happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon is absolutely unacceptable. It is clearly in breach of international humanitarian law. In terms of what happened in northern Gaza in the last week, we witnessed war crimes of a shocking nature taking place. I immediately called that out in a statement in respect of what was happening in northern Gaza and followed that up at the Foreign...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Mairead Farrell: The serial waste of the public's money on the watch of the Government is absolutely astonishing. The catalogue of waste is well rehearsed. A sum of €336,000 was spent on a bicycle shelter and the Government cannot even tell us who signed off on it yet. There was €1.4 million on a security hut. There was a doubling of the cost of modular homes for Ukrainians to a jaw-dropping...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the pupils from St. Columba's National School in Cork. I hope to meet them after this session. Ní aontaím leis an Teachta. Bíonn suas le €14 billiún á chaitheamh ag an Rialtas gach aon bhliain anois. Tá an-chuid foirgneamh scoile, tograí sláinte agus tithíochta curtha i bhfeidhm ar fud na tíre. I do not agree with the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Change the narrative.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----to increased expenditure and so on. There has been inflation, coming out of the war in Ukraine. We all know that. Everybody knows there was a period coming out of the start of that war and coming after Covid where the cost of building materials, in particular, went through the roof. We know that from some of the road projects. Some of those road projects we approved, where the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Dessie Ellis: The price does not matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----which were being evaluated was such that its Deputies in here said they wanted the project to get done and asked why we were delaying it. The Dunkettle interchange is an example. It is an exceptional piece of work from an engineering perspective on the way into the Jack Lynch Tunnel, but I recall that when we went back to tender to get better value for money compared with the original...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Minister for that information. He is right in what he is saying. Passenger numbers are looking positive. Services have been rolled out in the towns that have been mentioned, in Youghal, Mitchelstown and Mallow. On behalf of the people of Ladysbridge, Ballymacoda, Lisgoold, Shanagarry, Garryvoe, of those important local villages in the east Cork area, I want to make the case...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: On Connecting Ireland and the Local Link services, this new massive expansion in rural public transport has primarily been delivered by Local Link services. Bus Éireann has had a role too but Local Link has been central. I am glad that hopefully now NTA has agreed contract terms with all the Local Link providers for the next phase of their contract. We have also commissioned a review...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I appreciate the Minister's engagement on this. It is probably our final exchange in the current Dáil term. I do not know if we will be back again for another round of these parliamentary questions. Throughout your term, Minister, I have enjoyed dealing with you. We have very different political views on many issues. I wish you a long and happy retirement from this House. You have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: An easy question for the Minister to answer.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy for his kind words. I was only thinking of him yesterday. I happened to be reading up on all the various parliamentary questions and so on. I was reading an update on the Castlemartyr and Killeagh bypasses. Hopefully in the not-too-distant future we are going to get where we want, that detailed report as to how we would address the traffic congestion in those two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Public Transport

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken to address the efficiency and reliability issues with the 30 and X30 bus service which runs between Cavan and Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42114/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: What actions has the Minister taken to address the efficiency and reliability issues with the 30 and X30 bus service, which runs between Cavan and Dublin Airport? The service begins in Donegal, goes through Fermanagh and Cavan and then on to the airport.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I first should clarify that both the 30 and X30 bus services are part of Expressway, a commercial branch of Bus Éireann. Expressway services receive no State subvention, and decisions regarding service enhancements are based on commercial viability. The National Transport Authority is responsible for the licensing of public bus passenger services under the provisions of the Public...