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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy's question was not about over-allocating. He said that the Department has no method of knowing whether a ticket for a seat that has been allocated to someone is being used. We are not suggesting that the Department should over-allocate. We are saying that if the Department had a system that allowed it to gather evidence of seats not being used, and it transpired after a full...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: No, we are not talking about that at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Has the Department looked at this phenomenon?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps it would be possible to solve this problem using the technology that has been mentioned. If the Department has looked at this issue, perhaps it can send us an information note on what it has discovered to help us to understand how it was teased out. Perhaps these issues cannot be known for sure until a way is found to check the pass as each student goes in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am going on to the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am going on to Deputy Connolly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Foghlú has said that this has been looked at. The Department must have some documents, having considered the complex issues involved. The Department might share with us the benefits of what it has looked at. I appreciate that difficulties might arise if every person going to school had to present his or her ticket each day. Kids lose their schoolbags, not to mind their...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Which three counties are involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are all together.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are contiguous.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Dolan is going to cover the point I was going to raise because he will have some people from one county covering the boundary. That was going to be an obvious problem if the Department was going to proceed strictly county by county. The Department is covering students going from one village to the nearest village in the next county.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: I understand there is the reason to cluster in that way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: If there is time, Deputy Connolly will be able to come back in. I call Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is CIÉ in an overdraft situation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: It would not have been used to reduce an overdraft.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Does that not happen? I thought the guys go out and measure the route and have the equivalent technology of a taxi meter to measure the distance to the nearest metre.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will Ms Flynn explain that system?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Seán Fleming: What is the technology in the car? Is that equipment a milometer?