Billy Hann
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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There was a time we did take revenue from tickets, but we don't actually anymore.
On the backside of COVID, that's all changed now.
The ticket revenue actually goes back into the National Transport Authority.
And what they do is they give us what we call an annual service charge.
So they will pay us effectively on an annual basis to provide a service for them in accordance with a contract.
So we have what's called a public service obligation or a direct award contract, which has been given to Dublin for five years.
It's worth two billion over five years.
So it's roughly 400 million a year.
It's not quite that way, but it's in simple terms.
In simple terms, that's what it looks like.
If we don't spend that for whatever reason, then we're giving that back to the NTA and back to the exchequer in simple terms.
Fair revenue, as I said, goes back into the NTA and then they'll offset that against what they're giving us.
So in simple terms, that's how it works.
We do take some commercial revenue into the organisation as well.
We do have some commercial ventures such as Hop On, Hop Off, Tours, and we have some other smaller ventures with regards to our Do Dublin website and our Do Ireland website where we're sort of a third-party seller for various different products that people are selling for tourism around Ireland.
And that brings in a small amount of revenue as well.
Yeah, it's interesting that you've mentioned that because it's still only an annual service charge.
We would like to see multi-annual funding, right?
So we would much prefer when I'm developing my five year strategies, I'd love to know.
how much i have to play with over those five years it's not guaranteed okay so each year we're going into the nta and whilst we roughly know how much we need to provide that service in that year we're not going to be guaranteed payment for that particular year so we go from year to year trying to adapt and make sure that we have enough money to provide the services that they want us to provide if for whatever reason that money was there then we have to look at what services that that we're providing in an ideal world i'd like to see you know three four or five multi-annual year funding blocks
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