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

Kate O'Connell: I congratulate the NTA on the free Leap card initiative for children over the summer. It was a very good initiative and I saw from being on buses that people used it. Has the NTA carried out any qualitative analysis of uptake and registering of cards? Anecdotally, I know many people bought their children Leap cards and registered them. It was a brilliant initiative and one I would love to...

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

Kate O'Connell: What about the impact on other users and capacity of the figures Mr. Gaston quoted? Did extra services have to be scheduled to avoid annoying existing users? Was the NTA able to facilitate Kids Go Free within current capacity?

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

Kate O'Connell: I was very supportive of it. I know it happened in previous years. The four weeks were good because after going to the bother of buying the card and registering, people got value for their time especially if they had a few children. We have spoken at so many other meetings about a cultural change in the area of public transport and the idea of getting people out of their cars. If that is...

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

Kate O'Connell: Did that include the placement in bus shelters?

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

Kate O'Connell: Does Mr. Creegan have a figure for how that was broken down into print, design and bus shelters. I know they are expensive to rent but €77,000 would pay for a lot of them.

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

Kate O'Connell: Will Mr. Creegan get that to us?

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

Kate O'Connell: It seems like an extraordinary sum of money. If it incorporates the rent of the shelters, that is significant but I would also like to know if the NTA hammered out a deal. Did it get a discount for a cycle because there will be more in the future? Even in politics, we hammer out deals to use those for advertising. Has the NTA carried out an analysis of the effectiveness of that...

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

Kate O'Connell: It did succeed in directing people to the website but we need to know how that was broken down and its effectiveness because it is taxpayers’ money. So many people cycle into the city now. It has changed dramatically in the past ten years. I almost feel at times as if the NTA evolves rather than jumps in the context of the way in which transport develops. In other words, because...

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

Kate O'Connell: What percentage of the NTA's budget goes to cycling?

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

Kate O'Connell: How much of the budget is allocated in respect of cycling?

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

Kate O'Connell: Proportionately, how much of the budget goes on walking and cycling versus motorised transport?

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

Kate O'Connell: How can the NTA justify that in terms of the balance of the figures? Proportionately, how many people use bikes over buses? Is it a 50-50 split? How is it spread?

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

Kate O'Connell: How much higher? Would it be twice as many?

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

Kate O'Connell: Even if it is three times as many, allocating 90% of the funding in one direction does not seem very equal.

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

Kate O'Connell: I do not think it is acceptable that 10% is going on one third of the people but perhaps the NTA will address that over the coming years. The NTA released a video to show traffic delays on the Lower Kimmage Road in Harold's Cross. This was the subject of much irritation and anger in the constituency of Dublin Bay South. It emerged afterwards that the NTA had heavily edited the footage...

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

Kate O'Connell: I would like that figure. This is the Committee on Public Accounts and the NTA is spending taxpayers' money on a video which it edited. It then took down the video and it really annoyed people.

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

Kate O'Connell: I would like that information. Are there other examples of this sort of waste in respect of BusConnects specifically? Turning to outsourced placements, the NTA had a recruitment embargo and could only employ a further 80 people. Is the NTA's ratio between outsourced and regular staff essentially 50-50? Ms Graham mentioned that, although the NTA would shed some of the contracted staff...

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

Kate O'Connell: So that the NTA could shed 30% and still do its job and fund itself.

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

Kate O'Connell: Someone mentioned that outsourcing cost twice as much. Does that figure include pension entitlements and so on?

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

Kate O'Connell: Are some of the 150 or so staff in question transient? Do they come in for a week and leave again or does the NTA know them all because they are sitting there all of the time?