Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The Minister is apportioning the blame for some of the delays on the public transport companies such as Dublin Bus. In that context, how can the Minister state, in response to my question earlier, that the RPA had sufficient power under the regulations? If it had such sufficient power, why did it not enforce such power with Dublin Bus if it did not co-operate?

The Minister stated that some practices that went on were unacceptable. Will he provide details of what he meant about how some of the operators related to this issue? For clarification, is the peer review group of the project being carried out by the Department of Finance? Was it requested by that Department? What prompted it to carry out such a review and when will it be completed?

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