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

Brian Stanley: Thank you. The issue of bus stops and bus shelters has been covered and the NTA is going to supply information on that. The only thing I would say about the bus breakdown is that a requirement for a report to be given to the NTA in regard to service provision and the quality and efficiency of the service be put into the licence requirement. Can that happen and if not, why not?

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

Brian Stanley: Okay. I will move on to the purchase of buses for companies. Is it only on the PSO routes that they are purchased? Does the NTA purchase them outright and pay the full price upfront?

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

Brian Stanley: Figures were given in some of the briefing information on the number of buses. How many companies benefit from that scheme?

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

Brian Stanley: With regard to the operation, at what point are those vehicles taken out of service? Is there a best-by date? Do they reach that point at, say, ten or 15 years?

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

Brian Stanley: Why is it ten years for taxis?

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

Brian Stanley: I would argue in regard to taxis that the NTA should be looking at the mileage, not just the age.

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

Brian Stanley: Somebody could be operating locally. I know cars where a high mileage has been put on in the first three years but somebody living next door might have very low mileage. It is the same with taxis, some of which operate very locally. Taxi drivers who are pushing on in age may not want long routes. That should be factored in. Going back to the buses which are taken out after 12 years, is...

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

Brian Stanley: What about intercity vehicles?

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

Brian Stanley: Ten years.

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

Brian Stanley: What happens to the buses then?

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

Brian Stanley: Who owns them at that point?

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

Brian Stanley: Who owns the buses at that point?

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

Brian Stanley: Therefore, whatever is got from the sale goes back to the NTA.

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

Brian Stanley: I would like to move on to active travel. The public often ask what active travel is. It is walking, cycling and wheeling, which I think means scooters. In 2022, €310 million was allocated for active travel and some good work has been done. There are a couple of issues, however. I am saying this to be helpful. Yesterday, I gave the example of €200,000 allocated for the...

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

Brian Stanley: Sorry?

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

Brian Stanley: It is fine once it is done to the standard that is required. Sometimes a footpath needs to be narrower because of a bottleneck on a road. That is not the case with this road, by the way. This is the old N8, the old Cork Road. It is called the Cork Road, Durrow.

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

Brian Stanley: An area engineer-----

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

Brian Stanley: I ask Mr. Creegan to come back to me on that one.

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

Brian Stanley: I am anxious to get to the bottom of what happened there because it put the public representatives in a difficult situation - now you see it, now you don't. If we tell people the money is there and it will be delivered, we should be able to do it. I want to figure out who insisted on a consultant design being required for this and it being outsourced. It could have been done in-house very...

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

Brian Stanley: How the funding available is divvied up needs more joined-up thinking. I am just asking that there be insistence on that.