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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: When might that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Were payments received this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Has it always been the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: How much did the NTA receive from the Department last year in respect of those payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: It was a small sum
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: How does the NTA calculate what is owed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The NTA does not know, when someone hops on a particular bus or light rail service, the length of the journey.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: When did this all start? Why was it not always the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask the NTA to send the committee a note on this issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Gaston is saying it is complicated. Without going back to data protection, when the issue of who knew what came up, there were questions about why the NTA was passing information on for the purposes of payment. The Comptroller and Auditor General was not quite sure whether the information was being used to get payment. The situation is evolving, which was not the case in the past. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: In other words, this is a demand-led scheme and the NTA really has no idea what it will cost. It all depends on how many people use the service.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The figure for next year can only be estimated, however.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Once a person has a card, whether he or she uses it once a year or 1,000 times a year, the NTA has to pay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I am thinking from the operators' point of view. Some complain that, while they have commercial levels of use, they are not getting enough paying customers, as they would see it. It is a factor in that equation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: This is operated through the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, rather than through the NTA.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will follow this up with the Department, because it is expected before the committee in the coming weeks. That is fine. We mentioned the green schools travel programme earlier. What kind of budget does the NTA have for that scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: The NTA is reimbursing An Taisce. I believe it was said that it is run through An Taisce
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Does Ms Graham know how many schools that covered and their location? How many are covered in each county?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I ask for that because I visited two primary schools in rural areas in my constituency recently, as public representatives are often asked to. There were more than 30 in the room in fifth and sixth class. I asked how many walked to school on that day and only one hand out of 31 went up. They were all being dropped to school. I am just saying it is not just urban areas where there are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: -----but it needs to be much more ambitious. That is all I am saying. Who has a role in bus shelters? Who decides where they go and when they are installed? I am sure there is not a town or a village not looking for a bus shelter for its area. People stand in the wind and rain and the NTA tells them that the location of bus shelters depends on certain matters and that advertising must...