Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority

9:00 am

Ms Anne Graham:

It is not at present because it is now a matter of High Court proceedings. This was a particular case and it was an interpretation of an EU regulation that the authority, on behalf of passengers, was required to look at because we are the national enforcement body. As Mr. L'Estrange has outlined, because this was a new area, it required a lot of investigation in terms of interpretation and a lot of advice on what that interpretation might be. The matter is now before the High Court and we will wait and see what comes out of the case. There has been a referral to the European Court of Justice, ECJ, on the interpretation of elements of the regulation. This will be quite a lengthy case.

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