Written answers
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Departmental Expenditure
9:00 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 820: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of compensation received annually since 2000 by CIE broken down by company, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann for transporting passengers with free travel passes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2230/10]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Department pays the CIE Group centrally in respect of transport services provided by the Group companies for pensioners and other groups eligible under the Free Travel scheme. The apportionment of payment between the three constituent companies, Bus Eireann, Bus Atha Cliath and Iarnród Eireann is a matter for the CIE Group to determine. Payments made to the CIE Group since 2000 are as follows:
Year | Amount paid €000's |
2000 | 40,450,467 |
2001 | 41,530,850 |
2002 | 41,806,029 |
2003 | 45,776,164 |
2004 | 46,791,313 |
2005 | 48,884,577 |
2006 | 50,334,031 |
2007 | 52,367,167 |
2008 | 56,210,748 |
2009 * | 60,981,464 |
*2009 Figures are provisional
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