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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: On trains, a person does not have a right to a seat unless he or she reserves a ticket.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If I buy a ticket online for the train, am I entitled to a seat then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If I make a seat reservation, I am entitled to that seat.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If it is the Sligo to Dublin train and I reserve my seat, but I am getting on the train in Longford and there is someone in the seat and there are no spare seats because it is full, what happens?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is up to me to enforce that and say, "Look, you're in my seat. Hop it."
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If that person says, "I'm not going. Tough.", how would we enforce that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Therefore, Irish Rail would have staff members on each train other than the driver.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: When will that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In terms of transport police, how do we compare with rail providers internationally?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It would be interesting because there is considerable talk, both from rail staff and commuters, about antisocial behaviour. The response so far has been a texting service as opposed to customer agents or security. It would be very useful to get something on that. I return to the seat issue. If a person reserves a seat, he or she gets that seat. Is it correct that if I am a disabled...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: My information is that such a person cannot reserve it online. He or she can go to the station and say, "Here's my free travel pass. Obviously, I am physically impaired and I may need a seat for my companion." My information is that someone with a free travel pass cannot reserve online. He or she can turn up at the station and be at the mercy of availability of a seat then.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If there is a booking fee, it is not free travel.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Does the NTA have a role in this? As the authority, could it direct Irish Rail to permit free travel pass holders the ability to book online without a fee?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: While it is a matter for the committee, of course, in my personal capacity I respectfully ask Ms Graham that she do that. Many free travel pass holders are vulnerable, disabled or elderly and may have a greater need to have that seat and the ability to reserve it than an able-bodied person like me who could stand. On rail capacity, the delivery of additional cars is due in 2023. Is that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Let us say two full years from now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Will the National Transport Authority have any role between now and then in instructing Irish Rail, or rail providers, to introduce other emergency measures to deal with the major capacity problems that are causing the commuting misery people are suffering? I will again use the example of the Sligo line. By the time the train gets to Longford it is full, but some 50 passengers are trying to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
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- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: There is a shortage of drivers and rail carriages. Are there enough buses, if one could manage to find drivers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In the short term. There is potential, should Irish Rail agree, for the National Transport Authority to provide encouragement and the Government to fulfil whatever its role is to provide buses at all of the stations which are flashpoints in ensuring capacity at peak times.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It should be done. Staggering journeys is not practical for working people. They cannot state they are going to catch a later train to a factory and request that production be delayed accordingly. We are not going to be able to have the diversity of industry and businesses that would allow the staggering of hours to facilitate a solution to the problem of the deficit in public transport.