Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will stop now. I cannot understand how the National Transport Authority can operate in this extraordinary vacuum in which it gives vast sums of money to a company that cannot even produce proper accounts. Mr. Murphy indicated the arrangement is satisfactory, although the company in question cannot produce proper accounts, wastes money willy-nilly on Leap cards which took ten years to produce and cost €55 million, operates in a secretive manner, and has been found to be corrupt by some auditors in a report that it buried and which cost €500,000. The taxpayer should be able to rely on the National Transport Authority to put up the red flag and say CIE is a shambles and we should not give it this amount of money.

Mr. Murphy is paid a great deal of money. How many of his staff are paid more than €100,000?