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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is costing us more.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: That seems to be a daft situation. It might have been understandable at the beginning but that we are paying more now and ending up with something less stable is crazy. One of the criticisms that some of the PSO operators have is that they find the arrangements between themselves and the NTA has put them in a position where they struggle to plan for more than the given year. Why is that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The NTA also deals with walking and cycling. I read an interesting statistic recently. The sizeable and good investment in Luas results in fewer people coming into the city than the number that cycle, where there has been a relatively small investment. Will that be recalibrated because we are looking at people changing behaviour? Luas is a sustainable means of transport, but investment in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Has the NTA a reasonable degree of flexibility within the budget?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of looking at where money goes, NTA has provided grants to Maynooth University, Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin and St James' Hospital. Why are they specifically singled out and what are those grants for?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Is that aimed at both students and staff?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Is that for infrastructure or for subventing bus services? How does that play out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Sometimes it is very difficult to figure out the rationale for measures and the lack of connections. For example, I am familiar with Maynooth as it is in my constituency. A bus lane was put in front of the college on the Kilcock road. Within a short period, Dublin Bus ceased providing the service on that route and it was difficult to figure out why this had happened. It would not have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is not that many years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It was certainly within the time that the NTA has been in existence. I found it difficult to understand why this happened.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The type of fleet that the NTA buys is important in respect of the level of usage and, for example, for people with disabilities. I would not like to be the person being loaded onto one of the high-floor Bus Éireann buses. It is a bit of a scary experience. That is even if there is a space available on the bus. Is the NTA considering its future fleet from that point of view?...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: On the question of rail capacity which was raised in Ms Graham's opening statement, she mentioned a two-year interim arrangement and a five-year lead-in from order to delivery. I presume there is calibration and all sorts of stuff that happens after that. There are significant capacity issues at peak times in particular. I refer to that 24 month period. Has an order gone in or is that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The clock does not start to tick until the decision is made. A new fleet has been announced on a couple of occasions and is still being considered.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: What is the best case scenario?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: It is 70:30.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: Did the research that was done assume it is 70:30?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I presume the witnesses have read the Data Protection Commissioner's report about the public services card. Did they get any legal advice about their organisation's role, where it may not have names and addresses or unique identifiers for individuals? Is the authority collecting personal data about people that can then be assigned to them? Has the authority had legal advice on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: The report was based on older legislation that predates GDPR. Has Ms Graham read that report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: So the NTA has not specifically got legal advice?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Catherine Murphy: We received a good breakdown about staffing from the NTA and will get a note on the matter. When the NTA tenders out, it presumably tenders out for more than one person or perhaps it can vary. What disciplines is it looking at? Is it engineering and planning or administration or a combination of all of those? Is there a staff retention issue? If somebody is coming towards the end of a...