McGilligan, PatrickTuesday, 29 March 1927 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - CLARE COAST EROSION.
My Department is not empowered to undertake the construction of sea defence works nor has it at its disposal funds which could be advanced by way of grant or loan in aid of such works. Where injury is...
That possibly has come in, but I am not aware of it.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DUBLIN ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT DISMISSALS.
The sanction of my Department is required to new expenditure involved in an extension of works by the Electricity Department of the Corporation and in so far as the discharges referred to in the quest...
PRIVATE BUSINESS. - RAILWAYS (ROAD MOTOR SERVICES) BILL, 1927—SECOND STAGE.
Deputy Cooper has just avoided saying that this is a Private Bill. He said that it should have been a Private Bill. If he intended to imply that this must be treated as a Private Bill, I would ask h...
The Deputy urged certain considerations as an argument to sway your judgment in coming to a decision as to whether the Standing Orders referring to Private Bills should be applicable to this measure. ...
Are they secured against competition?
The justification for this Bill can be quite simply stated. The position at the moment in regard to road transport is, that anyone can put a motor service on the road on complying with certain genera...
It is put in to prevent monopoly. The fourth point is that, if the railway company has established road motor services and the maximum rate is charged on a particular road, that rate cannot be increa...
I do not think that can be done either. If there is a gap in the Bill in that respect we can amend it to meet the point. Certainly our desire is to ensure that it will not be possible for railway co...
Yes. I had thought that the question of the withdrawal of service altogether would have given me power to deal with such things as the nature of the service that is referred to in the section dealing...
They have very limited powers which are derived from certain old Acts. One is the Act of the old Great Southern and Western Railway, and the other an Act obtained by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford R...
Yes, because the railway people definitely got the power only to run the buses for specific purposes and along specified roads, and until positive power was given them by some Act they were definitel...
It is not very heavy.
Is not all the Deputy wants stated?
It does not deceive anybody—the Deputy has found it out.
Exactly.
Consult them?
Only to consult them?
Not under this Bill.
I gave that. That was one of the sections I explained.
It is a railway fare.
This Bill has nothing to do with railway fares. The Deputy is referring to railway fares, but this Bill has no effect on railway fares.
Would the Deputy read the sub-section he wants to have explained?
Has it anything to do with railway fares?
That is a different question.
The rates applicable to roads are very much less. The amount is under £45,000.
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