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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: While the Minister is telling us he is going to search, sample and sanction, he has given us no details of that. In an earlier reply, he said he was bringing a memo to Government with regard to searching, sanctioning and sampling. When is that going to happen? Why has it not happened before this? The Minister stands here and tells us that he wants to reassure the public. The only way to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I was in New York at the United Nations General Assembly where I was asked to present the Irish Government's position in an initiative we are taking with Arab and other European states to advance the two-state solution. At the sidelines of that meeting, I had the great privilege of meeting the Prime Minister of Palestine. He could not have been more supportive of what the Irish Government...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The legislation is there-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: -----better searches, better sampling and better sanctions. That will not be delivered in the lifetime of this Government but absolutely, it is my intention to go back to my Government colleagues when I have the information provided by the analysis being done by the Department to report on this issue, and also-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: When will that be?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: In the coming weeks. At the same time, I will indicate what progress my Department, which has been working on this for some six months now, is making on the complex issues of how we improve our legal powers in this area, which we need to do. That does take a certain amount of time because we need to get it right. In the interim, we will do everything we can. I have already put out a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Question No. 53 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)
Public Transport
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: 54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the request of public transport commuters in County Cavan for additional capacity on a route will be given further consideration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41895/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)
Brendan Smith: This Government and the Minister, in particular, have advocated very strongly for people to use public transport, and I am very glad that new and additional services have been provided to areas like my two counties of Cavan and Monaghan. Next Monday, a new Local Link service linking Cavan, Cross Keys, Ballyjamesduff, Virginia, Mullagh, Moynalty, Kells and on to Baile Ghib will be introduced...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for policy and overall funding with regard to public transport. However, I am not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services. The statutory responsibility for securing the provision of public passenger transport services nationally rests with the National Transport Authority, NTA, including the management of the public...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Matt Carthy: To me, that response says "long finger" and "procrastinate". The Minister has been in government for five years and throughout that time there have been serious concerns. One is in respect of the use of Irish airports, particularly Shannon Airport, and that there could be a facilitation of the transportation of munitions bound for war. Not a single inspection had taken place in this...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is a pity there is so little time and I am a stickler for time. We are clearly colluding with genocide when we do not conduct inspections, random or otherwise, of planes landing in Shannon Airport. As we know through The Ditch and other sources and dedicated people on the ground, a number of American soldiers have gone through that airport. The Minister set out the provisions of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: On a regular basis, we uphold the law by refusing applications for munitions to be either carried through Irish airspace or land in Irish airports. It is a relatively small number. Each year, on a routine basis, the Minister for Transport will assess any such application and, on a regular basis, say "No" under international law and under our rights as set out in the Chicago Convention. It...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It did.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I will have to disagree with the Deputy regarding the Foynes experience. It is possible to work very quickly when we work in this way because we are not caught in planning. Irish Rail turned around the Foynes line really quickly and I hope it can do the same on the western rail corridor. Regarding Deputy Harkin's question, I accept the need to improve access to the north west. Much of...