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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is too much effort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I was also going to bring it in to the point made by Mr. Brabazon earlier when he spoke about the wage subsidy support scheme. Again, the administration just needs to be made easier. A big company will have the wherewithal and the expertise and really it is not up to Mr. Brabazon or anyone else to have to jump in there but obviously that is a requirement based on how the situation is at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that. We do all that is necessary I assume.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a lot more expensive and difficult later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is about whatever tools produce that framework.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will be quick. Mr. Brabazon noted that all groups are going to give out when they do not have multi-annual funding that allows for real forward planning to be done. I welcome that Mr. Brabazon said Specialisterne Ireland is not fighting with anybody in regard to funding, and it is trying to work alongside people and not trying to get into bun fights in that sense. When we had SOLAS...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is a perfect answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Employment: Discussion (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Do ICTU or Specialisterne Ireland deal with non-verbal autistic people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the witnesses for being here. Where else would they want to be on a Tuesday evening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is over. Argentina won three-nil, but that is not why I was away. I had to do an Irish-language interview, very badly I might add.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am very sure RTÉ News notifications told them long before I did, even though they were engrossed in the questioning. To start with Ms Graham, she spoke about the taxis and I would back her completely on the necessity of maintaining a regulated system. It is not possible to operate a hybrid system. We have stated previously that is part of the race to the bottom. She spoke about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: If you are starting out as a taxi driver, it is obviously involves the car. On the particular type of car, what is the story with the grant schemes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The NTA considers grant schemes to be fit for purpose at present. In regard to numbers, what sort of numbers have responded to this recruitment drive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When we dealt with this issue previously we were afraid of the cliff edge. That can was obviously kicked down the road. Ms Graham is fairly sure that there is a decent pipeline or throughput we will get to and that we are dealing with a system that is sustainable. There is then that wider issue where one will hear stories of there being no taxis available, which may be on Friday and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The NTA appeared before the committee before, where we had an element of chaos as people were pointing out the ghost services which were appearing on the app and the buses themselves not appearing. I received the NTA’s opening statements but I have missed most of the committee’s proceedings, so my apologies if I am about to go through everything again. From the little I heard,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Just to get it clear in my head, real-time passenger information was fed in real-time by Dublin Bus’s system. What did Ms Graham call that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What was it doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The problem then was in the AVL and that information was then being transferred to the RTPI------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that and there will always be glitches but I do not fully understand how it happened in that one is getting a direct feed from the bus. What was actually happening with the bus then?