Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount by which he will increase the PSO to each of the CIÉ companies in view of his allocation under budget 2018. [44391/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Throughout the year I committed publicly to further increasing Public Service Obligation (PSO) funding levels in the future as resources allowed.  In Budget 2018 I secured an 8% increase in the overall Exchequer funding available for PSO services throughout the country. This means that in 2018 over €285 million will be allocated via the National Transport Authority (NTA) to support the continued delivery of these socially necessary but financially unviable services that have grown in recent years. 

The Deputy has asked about the proposed 2018 PSO allocations to individual companies.  As is normal, the precise allocations to the companies will be decided by the NTA in exercise of its statutory mandate and in accordance with the various contract arrangements that it has in place with PSO service providers.