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Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Must that be requested or will it be rolled out to all the operators, such as those operating the Local Link services?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: When is it proposed to do this? We are in a critical situation. Fuel increases have reached levels of 30%, which no business can sustain.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Okay. I ask Mr. Gaston to update me on that process.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The transport co-ordination units, TCUs, were set up as far back as 2014. I may be wrong about the date. I consult a great deal with my Local Link co-ordinators in Wexford and Waterford. They tell me the NTA is not listening to a word they are saying, that routes are being decided from an office in Dublin that are not relevant to rural Ireland and that is it. I am relaying a message as a...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Very quickly, I ask Ms Graham to comment on how many bus stops have been put in since 2019? It was said they would all have been put in by then. How many have been erected in County Wexford?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: No, I am talking about the actual bus stop. The pole that identifies that this is a Local Link service. That is what I am talking about. The bus stop that identifies for the public that there is a service.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: I can answer it. There are none, absolutely none.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The NTA might not be ignoring it. I only have two minutes, with respect. The NTA might not be ignoring it but nobody is doing much about it-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is very slow. It is very slow and the cost-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The NTA has a budget of €1.2 billion and as I said, the minutiae-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: I appreciate that and I agree with Ms Graham-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The ambition needs to translate into delivery-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Actually, it is not.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The plan is not viable currently. Mr. Gaston has said that the NTA will make recompense but fuel costs have been rising for 12 months-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Does Ms Graham know how long it takes a transport contractor facing a 30% increase in costs to go out of business? Not very long.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: It is not in our in interest at all and it is not in the public interest.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Well, the NTA is not working fast enough. I am telling Ms Graham straight-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: Well, I do. I have sat down with the co-ordinators providing the service. They are doing their damnedest, with local knowledge, but it is not being accepted. I have asked them what they have offered and what is on the table. There is no correlation between what is being offered by them and what is on the table. I ask the NTA to look at it again and to provide the service that is required...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: We need to see progress. That is all I ask.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority: Financial Statements 2020 (27 Jan 2022)

Verona Murphy: The Local Link contracts are up for renewal in 2023. I believe they can be extended for one year. Does Ms Graham know what the NTA will do or when does she anticipate that it will let the current Local Link providers know?