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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is there an apportionment, presumably proportionately, to the operator on an historical basis? Does that feed into the public service obligation, PSO, subvention?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In proportion to the level of usage.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is that then given to the operator?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is the information received on the PSC that is fed back to the Department very general? Does it not include the names of the people using it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are four different types of ticketing equipment. How did that happen? I presume it is different generations of apparatus. Is this the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to a number of points. The NTA had consultancy costs that amounted to €3 million in 2018. What was this expenditure for? It looks like there were two different amounts. One amount was described as legal costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What were the legal costs? Did they relate to a case? Is it ongoing? What was its nature?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Are they recouped by fines? Bad weather is something we will experience as an island and there will be delays because of it but where a service has not been provided there have been quite sizeable fines for some of the operators. Is this balanced out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In the opening statement, it was mentioned that the NTA is below its staff complement. What is the optimum number and how many does it now have?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What is meant by "outsourced"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is that the ideal scenario? That may be more tenuous than having somebody there permanently.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In any event, it is being paid for but it is suboptimum in terms of the stability of the organisation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What is that associated cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: It is costing us more.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That seems to be a daft situation. It might have been understandable at the beginning but that we are paying more now and ending up with something less stable is crazy. One of the criticisms that some of the PSO operators have is that they find the arrangements between themselves and the NTA has put them in a position where they struggle to plan for more than the given year. Why is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The NTA also deals with walking and cycling. I read an interesting statistic recently. The sizeable and good investment in Luas results in fewer people coming into the city than the number that cycle, where there has been a relatively small investment. Will that be recalibrated because we are looking at people changing behaviour? Luas is a sustainable means of transport, but investment in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Has the NTA a reasonable degree of flexibility within the budget?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In terms of looking at where money goes, NTA has provided grants to Maynooth University, Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and St James' Hospital. Why are they specifically singled out and what are those grants for?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Is that aimed at both students and staff?