Ms Vivienne Jupp:

The NTA deals with the three operating companies individually so the collective position of those companies may not be as visible to the authority as it is to CIE. We now engage more with the NTA because of the scale of the problem and the fact that we were able to give warnings. The CIE group and Irish Rail are working closely with the NTA to find a solution to the problem to present to the Department and the Minister.