Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Mr. Garret Doocey:
In regard to publicly subvented routes under the PSO programme, the NTA purchases the buses and the operators operate those buses, whether that is one of the State-owned operators or it is a competitively tendered bid. They can sometimes be awarded to State-owned operators or other operators such as Go-Ahead, which has a contract in Dublin. Those buses under the PSO programme are bought by the NTA.