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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.

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

Brian Stanley: In the same year, €568,000 spent on PR and €223,000 went to Behaviour and Attitudes. Is that accurate?

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

Brian Stanley: Some of the Deputies have been raising this.

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

Brian Stanley: On PR and the €568,000, what kind of work was involved? What does the NTA do in that regard?

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

Brian Stanley: Can Ms Graham gave a commitment that every bus stop in the State will have a lollipop or a pole, which I think is the term the NTA uses? At least that much.

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

Brian Stanley: The other thing on the bus shelters is that they be size-appropriate in a rural area. In Newtown, you would not need a big one but in Kilminchy you do need a big one.

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

Brian Stanley: Can the local authority do that using the company that the NTA has the framework agreement with?

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

Brian Stanley: I thank Ms Graham. I thank the witnesses from the Department and the NTA for their work in preparing for today's meeting. I acknowledge the fairly extensive briefing notes they provided. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for attending and assisting the committee. Is it agreed that the clerk will seek any follow-up information and carry out any actions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: The business before us this afternoon is minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first item of business is minutes. The minutes from the meeting of 25 April 2024 have been circulated to members. Do any members wish to raise anything in respect of the minutes? No. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: Waterways Ireland again receives a clear audit opinion. Sorry, that was last week. Are there any other questions on the accounts and financial statements? No. Can we agree to note the listing of the accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes. We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I note that the International Protection Office and Tusla are working on the design of a new model to improve the process of managing age assessments. There was a question mark over the fact that some who were claiming to be minors were not minors, but a new process is being put in place for that, and that is to be welcomed. That is supposed to be in place in the coming weeks. It is more...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: There are operational airports in Ukraine. That is my understanding.