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

The NTA has a role in seeing whether all of these companies providing a proper service. The appendix to the NTA's accounts contains figures on the DART, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. The intriguing one is that for the Luas service, on page 59. The NTA has standards of punctuality and delivery of service. The accounts states that Luas measures punctuality in terms of the total number of minutes lost due to delays and that there is no contractual target for punctuality, however the operator pays a financial penalty for every minute of delay. The accounts state that on the Red Line, the average delay recorded over the quarter was 545 minutes, which I estimate at approximately six minutes a day. On the Green Line, it was a smaller figure. Would Mr. Murphy explain how that works and how much financial penalty Luas paid?