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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much does the service cost today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: How much did the service cost in 2008?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is there a difference in those figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: So there is no saving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: In fairness-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: In fairness, the statement is a bit misleading because it says that more than €30 million has been saved but the Department is still paying the same amount of money with an enhancement from the parents. That is what should have been said. Could Mr. Nolan elaborate on the canvassing work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: With respect to Mr. Nolan, the Department did not give the statement; Bus Éireann gave it to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Perhaps it should be amended to reflect the actual costs of running the service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: When Bus Éireann went to the industry did it offer preferential terms and conditions? Were better terms offered to those people at the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Could I go back again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: I wish to return to one point about the figure of €162 million. Mr. Gannon said the €30 million was largely invested in 750 new services. Was there a change in the number of services between 2008 and the saving being achieved? What was the number of services at the start of the period and the end of the period? How many services were there at the start when the cost was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: The reason I ask is that the witnesses put a lot of weight on the fact that they had re-invested in 750 new services so I am anxious to know whether services were cut prior to that. I wish to know how many services there were at the start and how many services there are now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: A lot of weight has been put on the saving but we do not know how many services we started with and how many we finished with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the delegation from Bus Éireann. As Deputy Coffey has said, in reference to a previous speaker, nobody in this committee has a monopoly in terms of concern or in terms of allegations made or which are in the public arena. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous to the committee and to the member who made it. Discussions that are held in private should be private but, obviously,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: My question was why those savings had not been made earlier. Why did the economy have to collapse before the Department of Education and Skills insisted that savings were made? Why were these efficiencies not insisted on all the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: What is the cost of the service now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann (7 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: What was the cost for 2012?
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: Ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh le muintir Ó Clochasaigh ar son bás Peadar Ó Clochasaigh. Like some of the previous speakers, I did not have the pleasure of serving in the Dáil or on the local authority with Peadar, but I did have occasion to meet him at several Limerick County Council functions while I was a member. Once the decision was made to...
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: What happens in the North?
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Patrick O'Donovan: There is a lot of that going around, too.