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

Catherine Murphy: Is that for infrastructure or for subventing bus services? How does that play out?

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

Catherine Murphy: Sometimes it is very difficult to figure out the rationale for measures and the lack of connections. For example, I am familiar with Maynooth as it is in my constituency. A bus lane was put in front of the college on the Kilcock road. Within a short period, Dublin Bus ceased providing the service on that route and it was difficult to figure out why this had happened. It would not have...

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

Catherine Murphy: It is not that many years ago.

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

Catherine Murphy: It was certainly within the time that the NTA has been in existence. I found it difficult to understand why this happened.

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

Catherine Murphy: The type of fleet that the NTA buys is important in respect of the level of usage and, for example, for people with disabilities. I would not like to be the person being loaded onto one of the high-floor Bus Éireann buses. It is a bit of a scary experience. That is even if there is a space available on the bus. Is the NTA considering its future fleet from that point of view?...

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

Catherine Murphy: On the question of rail capacity which was raised in Ms Graham's opening statement, she mentioned a two-year interim arrangement and a five-year lead-in from order to delivery. I presume there is calibration and all sorts of stuff that happens after that. There are significant capacity issues at peak times in particular. I refer to that 24 month period. Has an order gone in or is that...

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

Catherine Murphy: The clock does not start to tick until the decision is made. A new fleet has been announced on a couple of occasions and is still being considered.

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

Catherine Murphy: What is the best case scenario?

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

Catherine Murphy: It is 70:30.

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

Catherine Murphy: Did the research that was done assume it is 70:30?

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

Catherine Murphy: I presume the witnesses have read the Data Protection Commissioner's report about the public services card. Did they get any legal advice about their organisation's role, where it may not have names and addresses or unique identifiers for individuals? Is the authority collecting personal data about people that can then be assigned to them? Has the authority had legal advice on that?

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

Catherine Murphy: The report was based on older legislation that predates GDPR. Has Ms Graham read that report?

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

Catherine Murphy: So the NTA has not specifically got legal advice?

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

Catherine Murphy: We received a good breakdown about staffing from the NTA and will get a note on the matter. When the NTA tenders out, it presumably tenders out for more than one person or perhaps it can vary. What disciplines is it looking at? Is it engineering and planning or administration or a combination of all of those? Is there a staff retention issue? If somebody is coming towards the end of a...

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

Catherine Murphy: Are those recurring posts?

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

Catherine Murphy: I received replies on fines from the authority. Some are quite sizeable, such as €652,000 for Irish Rail over three years. Does this relate to delayed trains? What does it specifically relate to?

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

Catherine Murphy: It says in the reply it was in the past three years. Would it have been an event in the past three years?

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

Catherine Murphy: Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead were fined for punctuality and failure to operate scheduled services. For what are the fines used? Is it part of the authority’s income? Is it a projected part of the income?

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

Catherine Murphy: In 2017, there were 251 million passenger journeys provided by Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, Irish Rail and Luas. Obviously, these figures predated Go-Ahead. Does that figure sound right? Thankfully, a growing number of people are using public transport, although services are stretched.

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

Catherine Murphy: The DART underground, a sizeable investment, is name-checked rather than planned for in the national development plan. If that were put in place, Irish Rail expects it would deliver 100 million passenger journeys annually. That would be a significant return on any investment relative to the number of journeys already taken. Why is the DART underground such a low priority? Does the...