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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is clear the pilot programme that was rolled out was not very attractive. It has obviously been a complete failure. The Minister mentioned the transport regulator. Over the years, successive Governments have given far too many powers away to entities and statutory agencies. We need to make decisions at the political level. Most of the Minister's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I absolutely agree. We have to provide good quality public transport and transport services for all our people. I deeply regret that the local hackney pilot scheme was not successful. The Deputy is correct about that. The uptake was far lower than we wanted. We will review that and come back with further iterations. When something does not work, we can at least learn why it did not....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Brendan Smith: I am glad the Minister agrees that we need to address the issue of there not being a public transport service for those people living in remote areas who do not have a family member or even a neighbour next to or near them. They need assistance. That must be driven politically. It will not be driven by any statutory agency or Government Department. I appeal to the Minister to make use of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Does the Minister agree that, as the Deputy has said, the conditions of the scheme were ludicrous? People in areas such as west Connemara were refused on the basis that there were already taxis in the area. Taxi drivers who lived in rural areas and who went to the towns or cities to provide a service were considered to be providing a local service. As the Deputy has said, many areas have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I absolutely commit to Deputy Smith to making all political efforts to improve rural taxi, hackney and, indeed, BusConnects services. This includes looking at the digital online app as part of Connecting Ireland. That will bring about improvements. It also includes working very closely with the likes of Local Link, which also provides a very significant local drop-off service. There is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Táim chun dul siar. De ghnáth, ní bhíonn cead agam é sin a dhéanamh. I am going backwards because the Deputies who submitted Questions Nos. 10 and 11 were, in fact, in the Chamber as I called on Deputy Smith.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: The Cathaoirleach Gníomhach was moving too quickly for me. I was just coming in the door.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Transport Policy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the work of the unit within his Department that was established last year to actively engage with shared mobility operators and partnerships, local authorities, and the National Transport Authority to develop and guide policy around shared mobility and promote the use of shared mobility nationally; and if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Bruton: This question may provide a response to Deputy Brendan Smith's question as well. I would like to hear about the plans for shared mobility. There are 3 million vehicles on our roads representing 60 million tonnes of embedded carbon. They use 12 million tonnes of carbon every year. Shared mobility is the greatest opportunity for carbon emission abatement at a very low cost.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I thank Deputy Bruton. Both the national sustainable mobility policy and the two most recent climate action plans contain several actions around supporting and expanding the range of shared mobility options in Ireland. As the Deputy noted, one of those actions was to establish a new shared mobility unit within my Department. The purpose of that unit is to engage with key stakeholders and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (4 Jul 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá Ceist Uimh. 8 in ainm an Teachta Rose Conway-Walsh. Tá an Teachta Martin Kenny ainmnithe.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Rail Network

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on all phases of the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28207/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: I want to ask the Minister about the upgrade works and the phases of the western rail corridor and where we are in respect of all that. I know he has been supportive of the extension of the western rail corridor along most of the way. We still have a section that I want to see brought all the way to Sligo, and we need to see more work in respect of that. Can the Minister give us an update...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Eamon Ryan: As committed to in the Government's current national development plan, the reinstatement of the western rail corridor is being considered as part of the all-island strategic rail review. The review is unique as it has considered the future of rail on the island of Ireland across both jurisdictions and was conducted in co-operation with our colleagues in the Department for Infrastructure in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Martin Kenny: We all look forward to the publication of the review and to advancements being made in respect of all the issues around rail on the island. It is vital infrastructure that we need to see developed. We all recognise that, in the context of climate change, rail is one of the key pieces of infrastructure which will put us in a safe place in regard to meeting our commitments. However, we still...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I welcome the announcement of the acceleration of the extension of the Luas line to Finglas. I will ask the Minister a straightforward question. Is it intended to give the same acceleration to the reopening of the railway line from Athenry to Claremorris?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister for his reply. For the past couple of years, we have been waiting for this final all-Ireland rail review. People are waiting with bated breath because, as Deputy Kenny said, we have to look at the western economic corridor. What are we talking about here? Earlier, I asked the Minister about the N17; we are now speaking about the western rail corridor. Those plans...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I warmly support the proposals to reopen the western corridor and to extend it, as Deputy Kenny has said, to Sligo. I remember the time when Irish emigrants returning home after the summer holidays trailed their handkerchiefs out the windows of the trains on that same route as they returned to their jobs in Birmingham, London and various other places across the water. The scene is different...