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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the NTA representatives back. I thank them very much for their engagement and for the briefing material they supplied. I will focus on something we raised when they were here last year, namely, real-time information, which the NTA addressed in its annual report. It calls them disappearing buses; I call them phantom buses. Some fees have been levied at some of the operators, in...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate why Ms Graham does not want to focus on one operator, but the area where I live has quite a high level of the routes that Go-Ahead operates so she will forgive me saying that I receive many complaints about that particular operator. When I raised it last year, the reason given was Covid. I understand it is now recruitment issues. I appreciate that is a real issue right across...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: What is the timeframe after the NTA meets them? Last year fines were applied and so forth. How often do those meetings take place and are they on the basis of the level of complaints? Mr. Ryan also wishes to respond. Will the witnesses forward a note on the levels of fines being issued, especially around route 63? I could name a whole host of routes, but I will not as I have limited...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms Graham. I have three minutes left. Mr. Ryan might send on a note on that. We did not get to him. I asked a parliamentary question on the Aircoach route 702 a few months ago. My understanding was that Aircoach would operate a 24-hour service from the airport - it does not matter whether it is once or twice an hour - but it has become a 6 a.m. to 8 p.m route. Passenger...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Therefore, a service provider can tell the NTA initially that it will have a longer service, and then reduce it after a few years of operating the service. Is the NTA not concerned that from an international airport, we do not have a multitude of possibilities for the public to use public transport?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: The airport is not, yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Ms Graham can see where I am coming from. A provider applied for a licence to operate a service. It got the licence and then, since the Covid-19 pandemic, reduced the level of service. It did not return to the level it was once at, and then it disappeared. Is that not of concern to the NTA? Would it not explore putting on another service if another application is made? I do not know...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Absolutely, it would be much longer.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: It is also a convoluted service. I just feel that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We will not have time to deal with the other questions now. Members can resubmit questions on those topics.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Although the topic is housing, the Deputy might send a note on that to the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We will move to Questions Nos. 5 to 22, inclusive. We have 15 minutes for this slot and if we go over that time, it will be taken from the next slot.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: It is a unique set of Taoiseach's questions today in that the Taoiseach is reporting on someone else's business.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: The next Taoiseach's questions will be his own.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected or co-opted to a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19573/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected or co-opted to a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19574/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department, and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected or co-opted to a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19572/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (1 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 161. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail the arrangements in place for where an employee of the Department and each organisation under its aegis, becomes elected or co-opted to a local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19576/24]