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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: One can go through that but at the other end one is told that Google Maps is correct, but it is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We also have Ordnance Survey Ireland, OSI, and from my first year geography class I know how to take out a piece of thread and measure a distance. I do not need Google Maps. What is OSI doing if we are not using it as our benchmark? God knows one can Google anything and get any answer one wants. I suggest that it is poor practice to depend on Google Maps as the benchmark of the distance...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Eircode postcodes too are not accurate. Putting the Eircode into a satnav will not bring a person to the door; it may bring one to the block.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I might write to the Secretary General on the specific case and see if he could take a look at it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We should probably stop giving it as an answer in official refusals.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I will write to the Secretary General about the individual case. Is school transport the only transport in Ireland that does not have a service level agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There is now, which is good news.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is progress. Are there any public transport services under the control of any Department other than the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What about transport to the islands?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, but it is aviation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know that but I am not asking for the answer in Chinese.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is there someone here from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: My understanding is that the Department is not responsible for aviation services to the islands, including Tory Island and the Aran Islands. Why is that not the responsibility of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is it the Department of Rural Affairs and Community Development?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In terms of the principle of subsidiarity and the Department's expertise in transport and aviation, would it not be better for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to be responsible for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If we wanted, as a committee, to see transport to the islands under the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport's remit, we should approach the Taoiseach. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is a good answer although I respectfully disagree. As a committee, we should ask the Department of the Taoiseach to move this to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport because the Department of Rural Affairs and Community Development is not overrun with avionics engineers. How many legal cases have been taken against Bus Éireann by children or their families?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If there was an accident or if a child slipped, who would be liable?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Are there cases involving Bus Éireann?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It would be interesting for us to know whether there are cases and to get an idea of the legal costs associated with those cases. Are they handled in-house, by a legal firm or is the State Claims Agency involved?