Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Mr. Ken Spratt:
I might take those questions in reverse, if that is okay. We will come back to the committee in writing on the 2030 targets. We have our existing public transport services and we will have additional public transport services in place by 2030, such as BusConnects and DART+, not just in Dublin but in other areas including rural areas, where an expanded rural public service will be available through our Connecting Ireland ambitions. We will come back to the committee with some detail on that. One of the Deputy's colleagues requested something similar earlier. We will come back with as much granular detail as we can on those requests.
All motor tax goes into the Exchequer and the short answer is it is not rerouted to the Department.
As regards the insurance implications of search and rescue, the outsourced service and the liability for the Department, as I understand it, we procure a service, and once that service is provided to us by a third party, the matter of insurance is a matter for that third party.
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