Results 501-520 of 1,104,269 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Catherine Byrne OR speaker:Richard O'Donoghue OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Niall Collins OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:Catherine Byrne9 OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Simon Harris OR speaker:Darren O'Rourke OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Mairead Farrell OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:Seán Fleming OR speaker:Willie O'Dea OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:John Lahart OR speaker:Catherine Byrne1 OR speaker:Joe McHugh OR speaker:Maurice Quinlivan OR speaker:Norma Foley)
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: I thank the Deputy and I believe we are ad idem on this. I reiterate the Government wants to see the cap lifted. It is national aviation policy to grow the connectivity at Dublin Airport and indeed at the regional airports and across the island because we are an island nation. Unfortunately, it is not a straightforward matter. It is one that whatever approach we ultimately take will...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (17 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Transport Policy
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the progress being made in implementing the All-Ireland Strategic Rail Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42047/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Éamon Ó Cuív: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the implementation plan following the publication of the All-Island Rail Strategy will be published; the criteria which were given to the consultants in drawing up this plan in relation to ensuring balanced regional development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41628/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Can the Minister provide an update on the progress being made in implementing the All-Island Strategic Rail Review? We welcomed the fact that there was an increase in services. In my part of the world we definitely welcome the fact that the Belfast-Dublin service was becoming hourly. We have then had a number of revisions of timetables because there has been an element of chaos. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 50 and 72 together. As the Deputy may be aware, the All-Island Strategic Rail Review was undertaken in co-operation with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. Following two public consultations, the review’s final report was published on 31 July 2024. The review's final report sets out 32 strategic recommendations to enhance...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am really sorry but we are way over. We are caught within the time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: Okay.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The subject is extremely important but we are caught in the time and the Minister had nearly three minutes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Airport Policy
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on the business plan now reported on by his Department on the funding application to develop the Waterford Airport runway extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41978/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: My question relates to the Waterford business plan to extend the airport at Waterford. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter having received an update from his Department?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: I thank the Deputy for his question and for the opportunity to update the House on this matter. As he will be aware, my Department has undertaken a detailed appraisal of the development proposal put forward by Waterford Airport. That appraisal has included the assessment of significant documentation and responses to queries raised by Department officials and addressed by the airport,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I acknowledge the hospital pass that the Minister of State has been given with this project. I wrote to his Department asking when in the past ten years a project that was 100% going to be funded by the private sector before the Department put in a cent of funding was last done. Nothing like it has been done in the previous ten years. The proposal is that private money will deliver the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: It is a little unrealistic to categorise this as some sort of once in a lifetime opportunity for the State and that the funding is not required until the end. Effectively the State has been asked to take a loan from private interests to be paid back pro rata when it is completed. Whether the money comes at the start, middle or end, the fact is the State is being asked to contribute...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I just cannot share the Minister of State’s opinion that the private sector, which is putting probably €24 million into this project, does not know what it is doing but the Department does. I remind him that in 2007, a Fianna Fáil Government gave a commitment to do the runway extension at Waterford at a cost of €25 million. Just like 24-7 cath labs, our university...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: The Deputy’s commented on metro spend. He will not have forgotten the global financial crisis. A lot of money was spent on various projects leading up to 2011. The State was in a different position then. I was someone who was cheering on that big dig at the time. I would have loved to seen a metro and an interconnector build around in the city and a circle line and all the things...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: Sorry, we are talking about Waterford Airport here, not the blooming metro.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: The Deputy raised the metro. The Deputy decided to raise the metro.