Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

Following the fiscal crisis, there was a significant reduction in the level of public service obligation, PSO, funding available across the network. That was reduced over the years. As a Department, we have endeavoured to try to increase that in the meantime. The decreases pretty much stopped in 2015. I think the amounts have been increased in the intervening period. In 2016-----