Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Public Accounts Committee

National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011

11:00 am

Mr. Gerry Murphy:

They have, yes. The way the dublinbikes scheme was set up was that advertising rights were given to JCDecaux in return for providing social and community facilities. The dublinbikes scheme was associated with that. JCDecaux developed it, provided it and has borne the cost of it, in essence. JCDecaux is not actually a bike provider but an advertiser. The negotiations have been about trying to get an extension to the project using the proprietary system.