Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 789: To ask the Minister for Transport the procedure in tendering for a contract under a rural development transport initiative (details supplied). [25059/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The rural transport initiative, RTI, is a programme that provides funding on a pilot basis for 34 rural community organisations to address the public transport needs of their areas through the provision of local transport services.

Area Development Management Ltd., ADM, administers the RTI on behalf of my Department. ADM and the individual RTI project groups are solely responsible for all the operational aspects of the initiative, including the services to be provided and the methods of provision. Neither I nor my Department has any role in such matters.