Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority

9:00 am

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

If the bus shelter needs an electricity supply, we are talking about €10,000 or more. Others may be slightly cheaper, but in general they are not cheap. Then there is a maintenance cost afterwards. The glass gets broken and things like that happen. We are not able to put them everywhere. We had a policy of providing them in key towns initially. Now we have mainly done that and we recognise, to be blunt, that we must put more in over the coming years. We will expand our bus shelter programme to put them in more places but they cannot be everywhere. It is just not an economic proposition to put them in everywhere. It is quite hard to calibrate a rule that works for all locations. It is very difficult to have one single rule stating, "This is the equation, and if you are in, you are in, and if you are not, you are not." A little bit of judgment is required on occasion, but the key thing is that we know we must put in more and we will do that over the coming years.

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