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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: The contract was issued in 2018.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: It was initially for five years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: The NTA would argue the point, but it is the privatisation of bus routes. I stand over that. The evidence shows that the privatisation of these routes has failed. I will ask about performance-related fines. Does Ms Graham have figures for the fines imposed on Go-Ahead Ireland in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Does she have them for 2019?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: Okay, the widely publicised figures are that in 2021 it was just over €437,000. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
John Brady: The widely publicised figures for 2022 are more than €3 million. Is that correct?
- 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-----