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

Catherine Murphy: I am telling you that it is.

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

Catherine Murphy: I can tell Mr. Ryan that it would never have approved what was approved with BusConnects before-----

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

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, the rules in that regard were changed. There is no pull-in bay. All it does is put a stop on and put a big square in the middle of the road where you cannot achieve-----

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

Catherine Murphy: I appreciate that. All I can say is that it was not possible to get bus stops before and suddenly there is a plethora of bus stops that are nothing but yellow paint and a bus stop.

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

Catherine Murphy: I am not against extra bus stops. It needs to be convenient for people to get on buses. They cannot be expected to walk long distances to the stops.

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

Catherine Murphy: I completely appreciate that and I know about the resistance. However, I have noticed a big difference before and after BusConnects, for what it is worth. With regard to active travel, there is still a de facto embargo on local authorities in terms of staffing. There is a disproportionate number of staff. The staff ratio is different in different parts of the country. For example,...

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

Catherine Murphy: I want a few notes on different things. I would like the NTA to provide a note on the satisfaction surveys it intends to carry out. There was mention of June and July. July is not the optimum time to do surveys, with people being away and that. I ask the NTA to give us a note on how it is going to conduct that and what kinds of questions it is going to ask. I am interested in how the...

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

Catherine Murphy: I used this example because it is very recent and is not Covid-related.

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

Catherine Murphy: There has been a significant investment, as Ms Graham would point out. There is the C spine in BusConnects. I have criticisms of aspects of it but the traffic has grown.

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

Catherine Murphy: That is telling us something. We are starting to see that tenure type and costs in the city centre means that people are moving further out. In fact, the city is not growing in the way it was planned to grow in the mid-1990s. The plan was that there would be higher density housing in the city centre and lower density housing further out. What is happening now is that fully formed families...

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

Catherine Murphy: I have a question on Dart+ West and Dart+ South West. I hope I have the names right but I am referring to the service to Hazelhatch, although I would like it to go further, and the service to Kilcock. What forward planning is the NTA doing in relation to rolling stock? Is sufficient stock available? I understand that there is a long lead-in time. Is the NTA holding off until it sees...

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

Catherine Murphy: Finally, I want to ask about the L58. I am not talking about taking a service away from people but I told the NTA it would not work before it was introduced. I do not think it was the original plan and it is not meeting people's needs. The service is there but obviously people are not using it. That said, we cannot leave people stuck either. There is a big industrial development planned...

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

Catherine Murphy: What about reconfiguring the route to Liffey Valley? Mr. Ryan said the NTA cannot justify running a bus into the city centre but it is justifying a route that has a low take-up. How can he justify the latter and not the former? There is still a bus running but it is just not going where people want it to go, which is why they are not using it. I cannot get my head around that. It is not...

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

Catherine Murphy: It was introduced in November 2021, was it not?

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

Catherine Murphy: Along with others, I told the NTA that it was not what was needed. It has not worked since November 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The size of that-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I essentially want to focus on Nos. 2 and 3, which relate to persons under the age of 18. I tabled some parliamentary questions on this but I think it would be useful for the public accounts committee to write to both the Department of Justice and Tusla on the number of referrals to Tusla of persons under the age of 18. There is a narrative that putting information into the public arena is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to make a point on that. In most cases, it will not be possible to fly from Ukraine because of the war.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Irrespective, it is very useful to have hard information. When stuff is put out into the arena that is true, that is fine, however, when it is not true, it is important we are able to address it with accurate information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It might be worth going back to them and looking for more granular information. It prompted something to me. Sport Ireland and, indeed, the FAI will have some involvement in the running of various elements, including underage. When we spend money on sports capital grants, it is essential we get what is grant aided. That is an area on which we might have to invite the Department. I am...