Results 481-500 of 1,046,750 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Mairead Farrell OR speaker:David Stanton)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Walsh mentioned that there are 130 staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many agency staff or staff on short-term contracts are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Are there contractors?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will turn to the representatives of the Department for a moment. What is the difficulty in getting sanction for more testers? There is a ridiculous situation in respect of experienced testers who finish their terms. What is the length of contracts that staff get? Are they one-year or five-year contracts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Staff come in for two years. Perhaps these are people who worked in a school of motoring.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: The population is increasing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Why is the Department not giving sanction for more permanent testers? I do not get the logic.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Those were temporary posts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many applicants are awaiting a test at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are 80,000 people waiting and the officials have it in their hands to sanction permanent ones. I do not get it. Many who were on contract were let go, including in the midlands.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many are needed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Roughly, how many? Is it 200 or 300?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will Mr. Walsh put a figure on the number of testers needed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is 200 permanent testers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Thank you. We will go to a second round of questions. I call Deputy Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: I think the point is that there has to be realism this time and speed limits have to be appropriate at a local level. Councillors must be involved. They will take expert advice, whether that is from An Garda Síochána or a local area engineer, but the council chamber must have that discretion. When the RSA contacts the AILG this issue needs to be emphasised, so that it can make...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes, but as Deputy Murphy said, many councillors will be told that speed limits are to be increased by this amount. It is important that councillors are made aware that this is their job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: There were four questions there. Will Deputy English ask Dr. Walsh to respond to the first and the last question on the school bus issue? Let us put this to bed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will Dr. Walsh clarify if the traffic medicine office's Professor O'Neill, gives the advice? I do not want to personalise it for anybody but is it the case that the professor gives the advice on what we are all fit for at the age of 75?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Brian Stanley: Where is that? What is that for?