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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: How far advanced is the oversight on the new arrangements for school transport?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: I have a final question about funding of a particular scheme in my own constituency which has had national attention, the central access scheme concerning the construction of a bridge. Does the funding come through the Department or the NRA via the Department or solely through the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: It is on an urban road-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: Where would the funding for that project come from in that case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: The Department does not have an input.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: We did not have a chance before the meeting to look at the CRC report. Copies have been printed for us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: We will do that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: We dealt with that matter in detail earlier. If the Deputy is interested in a specific issue, then she may pursue it. We requested the file of correspondence between the various Departments and the RSA.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: If the Deputy wants to pursue the matter further, that is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of the Fixed Charge Notice System
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras
Chapter 14 - Cash Balances in the RSA
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: Does the committee agree to dispose of Vote 31 and Chapter 14 of the 2012 report of the Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Agreed. We will break for 15 minutes before our session with Mr. O'Brien.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. John O'Brien and apologise to him for the delay.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: Mr. O'Brien may make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. O'Brien.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: Why is it inflexible? What is the mechanism used to transfer the van from A to B?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: Who sets down those conditions? Who makes the decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: In our report, then, we would need to look at that process, which is cumbersome and prevents immediate change.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: The system has grown up over the time that they have been in operation. Motorists know where cameras are likely to be and they drop to the appropriate speed limit.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: That should be in the contract.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras (19 Jun 2014)

John McGuinness: That would depend on whether one implements a wholesale relocation of all of the vans, but one is not doing so. In the case of those boy racers who spin around on the roads, where the Garda wants to deploy one of those vans, there should be capacity within the contract to allow that to happen to some minimum degree. Otherwise it is a waste of a resource. To return to Mr. O'Brien's opening...