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

Shane Ross: The National Transport Authority gives out money for the services regardless of CIE's behaviour elsewhere and the state of its accounts.

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

Shane Ross: Those requirements must be limited and the bar must be set very low. Is the Leap card fully integrated yet?

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

Shane Ross: Is it?

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

Shane Ross: How much did the system cost? It took approximately ten years to implement. Is that the case?

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

Shane Ross: It cost €55 million for a card.

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

Shane Ross: What does "back office development" mean?

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

Shane Ross: It cost €55 million over ten years to produce the Leap card.

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

Shane Ross: What does Mr. Murphy think of that?

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

Shane Ross: It took ten years to produce the Leap card.

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

Shane Ross: What is Mr. Murphy's view on the timeframe?

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

Shane Ross: Why did it collapse?

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

Shane Ross: How much was wasted in that period?

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

Shane Ross: This is a project where there was massive waste.

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

Shane Ross: Mr. Murphy may call it a delay but I would describe it as massive waste.

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

Shane Ross: I will stop now. I cannot understand how the National Transport Authority can operate in this extraordinary vacuum in which it gives vast sums of money to a company that cannot even produce proper accounts. Mr. Murphy indicated the arrangement is satisfactory, although the company in question cannot produce proper accounts, wastes money willy-nilly on Leap cards which took ten years to...

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

Shane Ross: The Government makes the decisions on cuts, but the National Transport Authority makes the decision on the distribution. Is that correct?

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

Shane Ross: The NTA works within that allocation yet within days it has granted fares increases.

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

Shane Ross: I am trying to establish the sequence of events. In 2011, the Minister announced a cut of €21 million and within days the National Transport Authority announced the fare increases in CIE. One of the reasons given was the cut in the subsidy.

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

Shane Ross: That seems pretty extraordinary. When the Minister cuts the budget by €21 million, the NTA seeks a fare increase to cover the expenditure in CIE. In fact the increase in the fares more than compensated for the loss of subsidy

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

Shane Ross: What I am trying to get at is that the Government must cut back and it seems sensible to cut the subsidy by €21 million but that puts pressure on CIE to get its house in order and by God it needs to put its house in order, it is a shambles. The NTA rescues CIE immediately and takes the pressure off it by giving it a fares rise. As far as I remember the NTA press release gives the...