Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority

9:00 am

Mr. Philip L'Estrange:

The context is that, with the opening of the bus market, we acquired new buses to facilitate the additional capacity required. As part of that process, there was a kind of fleet harmonisation in order that the new operator would have a fleet with a similar age profile to that of Dublin Bus. The new operator had a mixture of new buses and aged buses. As part of that mechanism, buses were transferred from Dublin Bus to the NTA, which then made them available to the operator. As part of the contractor, the price was €1 as a consideration-----

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