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 will take those questions in reverse order. It is just not true that projects have been cancelled. We are going through what we need to go through in accordance with the public spending code on all of the major projects. We have a lot of work done on Metrolink, BusConnects and DART+. There are five sub-projects under DART+ including the part mentioned by the Deputy. It is not that projects have been cancelled. We just have to go through the public spending code in accordance with rules with which we must comply.
In terms of the new PSO, our intention is that the half-price fare or the youth card to which the Deputy refers will be available. Unfortunately, due to technical issues it will not be available until the middle of next year but the intention is that it will also be available for use on services provided by private commercial bus operators as well.
I am not quite sure what strategic grant scheme the Deputy was referring to in her first question and ask her to clarify that.
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