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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Therefore, whatever is got from the sale goes back to the NTA.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I would like to move on to active travel. The public often ask what active travel is. It is walking, cycling and wheeling, which I think means scooters. In 2022, €310 million was allocated for active travel and some good work has been done. There are a couple of issues, however. I am saying this to be helpful. Yesterday, I gave the example of €200,000 allocated for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Sorry?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is fine once it is done to the standard that is required. Sometimes a footpath needs to be narrower because of a bottleneck on a road. That is not the case with this road, by the way. This is the old N8, the old Cork Road. It is called the Cork Road, Durrow.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: An area engineer-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I ask Mr. Creegan to come back to me on that one.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am anxious to get to the bottom of what happened there because it put the public representatives in a difficult situation - now you see it, now you don't. If we tell people the money is there and it will be delivered, we should be able to do it. I want to figure out who insisted on a consultant design being required for this and it being outsourced. It could have been done in-house very...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: How the funding available is divvied up needs more joined-up thinking. I am just asking that there be insistence on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy is raising a specific route and she is asking the NTA to go back and look at it again.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: It might work if it was extended into the city centre. Is that the issue? Would that solve it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay, so the NTA will review that. I forgot to ask something earlier about bus shelters. The local authority designates the area for a bus shelter. The councillors and the area engineers, through the local authority, designate where a bus stop goes. The local authority does the accommodation works, but then there is a rigmarole. In the case of Mountmellick, the local authority put up...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does the local authority then get the company that provides that in?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does the NTA have a framework agreement with a company?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I saw the reference to the €500,000 in the briefing note. It is the same for every local authority?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I have been banging that drum with the NTA for about seven or eight years regarding that devolution.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Could I briefly ask the witnesses about consultants and the cost of hiring them? Deputy Ó Cathasaigh alluded to this in his discussions with the witnesses. I refer to the reply to a parliamentary question tabled in 2022 on the spending involved, which, in that year, was substantial. Some €10.294 million went to Ernst and Young. What was that for? What services did it provide...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: What does it provide? That is what I am asking. What does it do the for NTA?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: It provides employees.