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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: I understand that. Garda vetting is required. To return to an earlier point, the Department leaves it until very late in the year to close the scheme to applications. I know that is done to give people as much time to apply as possible but it causes terrible problems in a short six to eight week period. Why does the Department leave it so late? Why does it not move the closing date back...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: When is the closing date now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: By whom? Is it by the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Can applications be made online?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: In regard to the Bus Éireann owned vehicles, what happens to them during the school holidays and how many of them still bear the bus scoile logo?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Could they not be used? The private contractors use their vehicles 52 weeks of the year. How many school buses has the Department purchased in the last five to ten years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Department is buying very few vehicles.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: The oldest vehicles are used for school transport.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is it only a matter of time before there is none of them left?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: How many of those vehicles are currently on the road?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Do they all bear the school bus livery?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Aside from the livery, why can the buses not be used for the other 20 weeks of year? It makes no sense to have buses locked up for that length of time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: The ticketing issue does not arise in regard to the school bus.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: As I see it, the State, through the Department, has invested in 400 buses that can only be used for 33 weeks of the year. That makes no business sense to either the Department, Bus Éireann or the taxpayer. Does Mr. Kent understand my point? For example, Bus Éireann could not afford to keep other buses locked up for 20 weeks of the year. It makes no sense. What percentage of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Do the witnesses anticipate that percentage will increase as the current fleet ages and becomes unsafe?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Can Bus Éireann not just buy a regular bus which can be used for school transport for 30 weeks or the year and then more generally for the remainder of the year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: I cannot understand why taxpayers' resources are being locked up in a garage for 20 plus weeks every year. It does not make sense.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Would that not be a good idea in safety terms?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: We have already been told the cost per annum in passenger terms of operating the 400 buses. What is the cost to Bus Éireann versus the cost to the contractors? Which is the cheapest? For example, the Comptroller and Auditor General said that the cost in 2015 was on average €1,800 per head. What is the amount for the most recent year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: What Bus Éireann provides internally is up to 20% more expensive than what is charged by the average private contractor?