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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I know that the Department worked very hard over the summer last year and sometimes the summer is when it engages with the principal or the people concerned, but it is about being sure there will not be a continuation of the use of prefab cabins or the school hall as opposed to a classroom setting. Turning to Ms Conduit, in March of this year, representation was made by a party colleague...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: In March of this year, a third bus was laid on. Why was it laid on in March and not in September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Everyone knows the context of how the school transport scheme works, and I do not have much time. I will have to come back in repeatedly. I therefore ask the witnesses to please specifically answer how a third bus was laid on for the students who required it in September, but it only happened in March. How and why did this happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: These were all concessionary ticket holders. All of them were.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: They are not concessionary ticket holders if they had been turned down by their closest school. A third bus was laid on in March. How and why did that happen? Why was it not laid on in September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Okay. Are there still three buses on that route?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Well, the information I have tells me different. which is that all students are now being accommodated on the original two buses. The third bus was laid on for one week only and all the students who could not be catered for in September are now being catered for on the two original buses.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: That is not the question I asked. I asked whether there are now two buses on the route or whether there are three.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Well, please do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I also ask Ms Conduit to come back about why and how it occurred. The information I have is that a Deputy who is a colleague of the Minister arranged a meeting and he was of the opinion that he would get no votes in the general election. That was mooted to the Minister in front of the parents. The parents had told him that. Then, a bus was laid on two weeks later, but only for one week. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Some of those families have not applied on the basis that they are not entitled to the ticket because they are not going to the school that is nearest to them. The latest review says that we will do away with all that. The latest review states that, contrary to the accounts that show the figure of €339 million, Bus Éireann’s transport costs must have increased by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Is Ms Conduit referring to the figure of €339 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: There is, therefore, an increase of €100 million to date. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Well actually, you are not. In Wexford, the figures do not show that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: That is because we are catering for the Ukrainian population.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Almost all of them are. We have already thrashed this through parliamentary questions. It is almost all for the Ukrainian population. Therefore, there is in fact no increase. Ms Conduit is dead right, though. When it came to catering for the population that came from war-torn countries, buses were laid on with no issue. I accept that. There is a huge issue, as Ms Conduit will well...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I do not mind, as long as there is an answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: That is not the answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: Do not waffle with figures. I want answers, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) Verona Murphy: I want answers, respectfully.