Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The reason I asked the question about the specific roles and responsibilities was because when we had the issue about the delays being experienced at College Green, TII was responsible for the light rail, Dublin Bus was involved in timetabling, Dublin City Council was involved in where the bus stops could be located and the NTA was involved in rerouting. Those are four bodies, and I am sure that there are more. The Taxi Federation will say that it also wants a role. There are five different State agencies. I want to know from the witnesses what their responsibilities were and whether there is a structure in place in terms of a service level agreement relating to how the organisations deal with each other.

The witnesses were not here on the last day the other groups came before the committee when there was an element of one blaming the other, along the lines that If someone had done this before we would not have this problem today. There should be somebody with overarching responsibility to co-ordinate the groups. As my colleague said earlier, that might be a policy decision that needs to be taken but we do need somebody with whom the buck stops.