Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Public Accounts Committee

National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011

1:10 pm

Ms Anne Graham:

We have been asked to look at how we integrate those services. There are a number of services being provided across different Departments - school transport services, health transport services and the core rural transport services. Is there a way to integrate those in a better way which will result in an overall saving? Then there is the possibility of extending those services, because if one can accrue savings, one might be able to expand those services. Initially, we were looking at the barriers to integrating services. Now we are trying to work through those barriers to see where we can actually try out different scheduling of services. For example, there could be a school transport service early in the morning, a health-related service later in the morning and a rural-----

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