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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Proportionately, how much of the budget goes on walking and cycling versus motorised transport?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: How can the NTA justify that in terms of the balance of the figures? Proportionately, how many people use bikes over buses? Is it a 50-50 split? How is it spread?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: How much higher? Would it be twice as many?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Even if it is three times as many, allocating 90% of the funding in one direction does not seem very equal.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I do not think it is acceptable that 10% is going on one third of the people but perhaps the NTA will address that over the coming years. The NTA released a video to show traffic delays on the Lower Kimmage Road in Harold's Cross. This was the subject of much irritation and anger in the constituency of Dublin Bay South. It emerged afterwards that the NTA had heavily edited the footage...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I would like that figure. This is the Committee on Public Accounts and the NTA is spending taxpayers' money on a video which it edited. It then took down the video and it really annoyed people.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I would like that information. Are there other examples of this sort of waste in respect of BusConnects specifically? Turning to outsourced placements, the NTA had a recruitment embargo and could only employ a further 80 people. Is the NTA's ratio between outsourced and regular staff essentially 50-50? Ms Graham mentioned that, although the NTA would shed some of the contracted staff...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: So that the NTA could shed 30% and still do its job and fund itself.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Someone mentioned that outsourcing cost twice as much. Does that figure include pension entitlements and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Are some of the 150 or so staff in question transient? Do they come in for a week and leave again or does the NTA know them all because they are sitting there all of the time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In terms of employment rights, is a dodgy situation emerging whereby, since the NTA is contracting in and paying the bill, those people can claim that they have pension entitlements or that they are permanent staff because they have been sitting there for ten years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Yesterday, information emerged regarding a similar situation in respect of hospital consultants whereby cuts did not realise savings. Is there aggravation between the NTA's staff because, for example, someone is costing twice as much as the person sitting beside him or her? Is that a HR issue or is no one very concerned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Ms Graham is happy enough with the situation. Mr. Gaston mentioned the list of cards to be blocked that the NTA gets. Is that list anonymised? He did not mention whether it was.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The number on the PSC is coded to the reference number that the NTA gets. The NTA cannot put that number into any machine and find out that it equates to me, for example.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for their time.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Yes

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I have not had lunch so I might be a bit cross. Following on from Deputy Murphy's questions, it is my reading that Caranua set up and then started to get its ducks in a row a long time afterwards. That is my real concern here. What year was Caranua set up?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Caranua is really only a young organisation, as such. From the questioning here today I believe that it seems to have been a basket case from the genesis of it. It did not have the staffing complement. It has come to the fore that Caranua had not recognised the complexities of the people who would be coming to it. As Deputy Murphy has clearly outlined, Caranua appears to have been shocked...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Who was? Is there anyone here who was?