Results 421-440 of 1,051,835 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:John McGuinness OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Verona Murphy)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: We can only go on the number of deaths on the road. That is why the RSA here: to give us answers about why that is happening. We have a situation where we cannot get bus drivers under the Bus Éireann tender. I received a text today that states there are 110 pupils going from Kilmore to Wexford. We will have at least 60 extra cars on the road for the want of two bus drivers. Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: We are not talking about cars.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: The medical pertains to driving a bus.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Hold on now, Chair. Do not run down the clock on me with rubbish. I put a question about school buses. We are not talking about cars.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Did you not understand the question? The question is not about what Professor O’Neill advised. It is about why we have a medical at the age of 75. Who advised that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Why have you not committed to doing that already? Why have you appeared here to be told that? Have you not recognised that contradiction up to now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Sorry, I have been raising this for ten years and it is only in the last three years that the RSA has increased the medical to the age of 75. It was since Covid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Do you believe-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Do you believe it is a contradiction?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Common sense would dictate that there is something, apart from the fact that it is Bus Éireann’s policy, which is a Department of Transport issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: You can fudge away but the reality here is that we could have two bus drivers taking 110 children to school or we can have 100 cars on the road. Mr. Waide’s objective should be the two bus drivers. It is not up to me to come up with a solution. Mr. Waide is being paid the big salary as the chief executive of the RSA to reduce road deaths. Primary to that is putting in a modal...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Your review will take far too long. This subject has been on the cards for ten years. It is Mr. Waide’s first time before the committee in five years. I have written to the Road Safety Authority several times but I have never gotten a response, email-wise-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: They are different matters. I referred to you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Do I have the incorrect details? How many emails did you personally receive from me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Well, that is fine. I will forward them to you again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: As far as I am concerned, I have the details, but I certainly have not received a response, but I will take that. That could be a simple IT issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: This has been extended to the age of 75. I am fully aware of that. What I am saying is that the compulsory medical has been extended. It has gone from the age of 75 from 70.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: We are not talking about that. We are talking about the age of 70 here now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Drivers of commercial vehicles who are over the age of 70 would require a medical annually. It is now extended so that it must happen annually, when one is aged 75, then turns 76, then 77, etc. That is the point I am making.