Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments Under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 26 - Collection of Motor Taxation
Financial Statements 2011 - National Roads Authority
12:50 pm
Mr. Tom O'Mahony:
On the free travel scheme, I do not believe CIE has a choice. The Government has decided as a matter of policy that certain people should have free travel and it is prepared to make a subvention available for that purpose. It would not be open to the national transport company, as a matter of policy, to decide not to abide by that policy. Basically, therefore, it is a taker.
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