Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The website is very important.

I know that the NTA has a list on its website of every private operator in the country that has a licence but their timetables are not on the site. People with local knowledge might tell somebody if there is a bus service licensed to go from town A to town B in some province. Due to commercial activities some of those buses are not operating although they have a licence and the NTA may not know that they are not operating. Does it have a mechanism to check that when it issues a licence the bus is actually on the road? I will come to the issue addressed in the appendix of its submission about performance monitoring of the major companies in Dublin but first Mr. Murphy might tell me about putting the timetables up on the site. He spoke about the journey planner which is a bit scant. I believe the NTA needs to put a bit more energy into this in order for people to know whether the buses are running.