Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Public Accounts Committee
National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011
11:20 am
Mr. Gerry Murphy:
Yes. We have an enforcement team of nine people who are specially trained. We operate joint operations with the Garda Síochána. Last year the NTA checked out 14,000 vehicles, either when stationary or in joint operations with the Garda Síochána. We monitor taxi ranks. The monitoring of taxi ranks was a problem in 2011. We contracted some extra resources through our contractor, SGS, which undertakes our general vehicle licensing. It provides a special compliance team which monitors the key taxi ranks where there have been problems. Those ranks are monitored to ensure appropriate behaviour for proper queueing.