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:

The PSO services provided by the public transport companies are under contract with the National Transport Authority, NTA, which sets the service levels and agrees each level in a contract with each of the operating companies. The subvention, as we refer to it, is essentially a payment to the public transport companies under contract for the services that are specified in the agreement.