Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Public Accounts Committee

National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011

12:10 pm

Mr. Gerry Murphy:

No. It is a Japanese company. The contracts were for 234 rail cars and if one says that they were €2 million each that would have been a €500 million contract in three tranches. The last tranche was a contract awarded in December 2008 and 51 cars were delivered from that contract. The net effect of all the rail car purchases - there were 21 unused because passenger demand has gone down and the extra services have not been provided - is that those are in storage. Those contracts-----