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Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Murphy send us information on the number of licences operating on a county by county basis?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: As the Chairman knows I am not normally parochial but as a typical example, a taxi driver in Portlaoise complained to me that there are 194 licences in Portlaoise. There is no livelihood for half that number. Does the NTA just continue to issue the licences? Is there any ceiling? I am not talking about going back to the old system of a ceiling. Does the NTA have a role in deciding with...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Can the NTA not process an application for an ordinary taxi?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is extraordinary. I know we probably created that rule here in the Oireachtas.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I want to go back to my question about a town with a population of several thousand and no taxi. Who is responsible for deciding whether these people should have a taxi service? Must a local authority provide a taxi rank if a service is to be offered? How does the system work? Some towns are seeking taxi services and I do not know what is the nature of the delay in their obtaining them....

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Murphy and his colleagues to the meeting. I will not dwell on all the meetings I have had with the authority during the year about the cessation of the bus route which served Abbeyleix, Durrow, Johnstown and Urlingford on the Dublin-Cork route and the reduction in the services on the Limerick route. This seems to be happening throughout the country. I thank Mr. Murphy for his...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Has the authority received many such requests during the year? I did not notice this heading in the annual accounts. Is there a ballpark figure available?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The website is very important. I know that the NTA has a list on its website of every private operator in the country that has a licence but their timetables are not on the site. People with local knowledge might tell somebody if there is a bus service licensed to go from town A to town B in some province. Due to commercial activities some of those buses are not operating although they...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I understand the issue with Leopardstown, the Cork race course and Fairyhouse. They are race courses involved with horse racing. I do not see the connection between Navan Golf Club and the horse racing industry.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I know there is no obligation but out of courtesy could the auditor come before us, even if it was only in private session? He might agree to come in the interests of joined up governance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will the briefing be private or public?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: My question relates directly to last week's meeting dealing with the 2011 accounts for the Commission for Aviation Regulation, Commission for Communications Regulation and Commission for Energy Regulation. While we discussed those accounts during that meeting it was only following the meeting that I got a proper look at the accounts, which were for the year ended 30 June 2011 and as such...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The annual accounts for the year ending 30 June 2011 were signed off on 21 December 2011, which led me to query whether the 2012 accounts had been signed off. It would have been far more beneficial for the committee to have had those accounts. On two occasions during the past couple of months we discussed accounts that were a year and a half old. It would be far more beneficial and make...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: On that matter, why do we receive the accounts for the Navan Golf Club PLC? Is it part of a larger body and so on?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that the small and medium enterprise sector is accessing the credit it needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3321/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland Grant application will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in Co. Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3508/13]

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I refer to the reply I received from the Minister on 21 November 2012. He stated: "I am confident based on the progress to date of the 47 measures will be completed at a minimum on an administrative basis by the end of the year."

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I asked for an update and there has been no update. I acknowledge the work is ongoing. I thought it was nonsense when he said they would be completed by the end of the year but he put his neck out. That statement is on the Dáil record and I am just following up.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I do not blame the Minister, but I asked for an update on this issue. What the Minister said is a verbatim copy of the reply I am holding to a parliamentary question last November. I have every syllable, comma and full stop of what the Minister said in front of me.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The record of the House shows there is no update from the update I am holding, which we were given in November after the Cabinet was updated at the end of October on measures to be implemented by 2012 and a review at the end of the third quarter. There is no update from then to now; the situation is the same.