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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Yes, Go-Ahead Ireland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Dublin Bus provides many more services than Go-Ahead Ireland. I am focusing solely on Go-Ahead Ireland, which received fines of more than €3 million. Does Ms Graham have the figures for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Dublin Bus provides far more routes. Go-Ahead Ireland received fines of nearly €1 million despite ongoing rhetoric-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: It was €300,000 and €500,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Despite all of the rhetoric that Go-Ahead Ireland had issues but was going to improve its services and so on, still we saw a substantial amount of fines being levied on it. Would Ms Graham view those fines as substantial?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: I can speak from a Wicklow perspective. Three routes were handed over to Go-Ahead Ireland - the 185, the 184 and the 45A. Throughout the years since Go-Ahead Ireland has taken them over, there have been consistent failures to provide a service that is fit for purpose. I have given many stories of how it has impacted on different people. For example, they are left waiting for buses that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Absolutely. In 2023, what happened when the five-year contract was up?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Ms Graham acknowledges the serious failings. There was an opportunity-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: As the people who have contacted me see it, and I agree, we are post Covid now and those issues are still happening on the routes I am speaking about.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: There was an opportunity to address it but a decision was taken by the NTA to extend the contract for Go-Ahead Ireland and reward it for its failings. Am I right in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: BusConnects has the potential to provide a brilliant service. In my constituency, critical new local public transport routes, such as the L1, L2 and L3, are being rolled out. I am concerned that those new routes have been handed over to Go-Ahead Ireland to operate. Was there a tendering process for those new routes for Go-Ahead Ireland? Was Dublin Bus given the opportunity to provide the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Sorry. There is a real concern that given the failures of Go-Ahead Ireland to put in place a service that people can rely on, the lessons have not been learned and by rewarding them and giving them additional routes, we will be left with a continuation of further bad routes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: They are operated by a service provider that has a very questionable track record both in the UK and Ireland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Perhaps if the witnesses could furnish that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: In the last two minutes I wish to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: I wish to move on to another area, which is the complete underinvestment in our rail infrastructure. The Rosslare to Dublin rail line is absolutely not fit for purpose. I have raised this on a number of occasions. On a daily basis - this has been the case both pre-Covid and post Covid - six rail journeys a day stop at the train station in Wicklow town. Every morning, the 7.30 a.m. train...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Sorry, I am conscious of the time. I appreciate there is a broader, bigger piece of work being looked at. However, people need the investment here and now. Surely we do not need consultants to look into putting an additional couple of carriages at the end of a train that is going through the train stations on a daily basis. We do not need a broader, longer piece of work to do something as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: It is a no-brainer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)
John Brady: Look at our actual health budget.
- European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)
John Brady: The core of the issue we are discussing is the Government’s shambolic approach to the asylum issue from the outset. The Government is now attempting to present the EU migration pact as a catch-all solution to the current crisis, the root of which lies in the Government’s failure to develop a coherent plan. Ultimately, it is operating a reactionary approach to events as they...