Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Tendering of Bus Services: National Transport Authority
10:40 am
Noel Harrington (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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At the last meeting Deputy Dooley introduced an ideological argument.
It would be preposterous to suggest the National Transport Authority, NTA, was embarking on a mission of privatisation. It was the NTA that offered those contracts to provide for efficiencies, not some political or ideological decision.