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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry to have missed the presentation from the NTA but I have the notes. We are talking about the bus corridors specifically, which are important, but it is inevitable that we also raise points about BusConnects in general and some of the issues pertaining to the NTA. I want to pick up on the point about privatisation because I questioned the Minister on that issue this morning. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It is connected with the NTA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: At the transport meeting here last week, €3 million was assigned from the Estimates to the NTA for Go-Ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Chair is being very partisan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: This came up at the meeting last week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: There was €3 million assigned to the NTA in relation to Go-Ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Is that not relevant to the National Transport Authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: That is very interesting. I would have thought it was relevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I know a little bit more about it than Deputy Rock, in fairness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The unions in Bus Éireann believed there would be a period of time to see how this company was performing, so it is related, and I would hope that we care about the working conditions for bus workers. I am sure nobody is suggesting we do not. I met Mr. Creegan at a public meeting in Blanchardstown where a lot of people came up to him and he probably had his ears burned off with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I may have to leave the committee room. I do not mean to be ignorant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I do not want to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It is just not true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: If it is taking in a private-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: If somebody comes into the committee and says something that is completely false-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: If a private company is going to run the routes, it is a private company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: She is not here to just give her views.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I take up that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I will do it in two sentences. The money that accrues to Bus Éireann, for example from bus fares, goes back to the State coffers. That is what happens to any profit or surplus. The money that accrues to the private company running the new routes accrues to the shareholders. That is the difference. It is a huge difference. Workers' pay and conditions are the other difference....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects Bus Corridors Project: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: That is fine. I just wanted to correct her.