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| Company type | Statutory Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Infrastructure & Public Transport State Administrator |
| Predecessors | |
| Founded | 1 January 1945; 80 years ago (1945-01-01) |
| Headquarters |
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Area served | Ireland |
Key people | Fiona Ross (Non-Executive Chairman) |
| Revenue |  €1.315billion (2018)[1] |
| €72.1 million (2018)[1] | |
| -€35 million (2018)[1] | |
| Owner | Government of Ireland (100%) |
| Parent | Department of Transport |
| Divisions | CIÉ Tours International |
| Subsidiaries | Iarnród Éireann Dublin Bus Bus Éireann |
| Website | www.cie.ie |
Córas Iompair Éireann (Irish for 'Irish Transport System'), orCIÉ, is astatutory corporation ofIreland, answerable to theIrish Government and responsible for most public transport within the Republic of Ireland and jointly with itsNorthern Ireland counterpart, theNorthern Ireland Transport Holding Company (which trades asTranslink), for the railway service betweenDublin andBelfast, viaDrogheda,Dundalk,Newry andPortadown. The company is headquartered atHeuston Station,Dublin. It is a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by theMinister for Transport.
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Since the enactment of theTransport (Re-organisation of Córas Iompair Éireann) Act, 1986, CIÉ has been the holding company forBus Éireann,Dublin Bus andIarnród Éireann/Irish Rail, the three largest internal transportcompanies in Ireland. It was originally to have operated theLuas tram system in Dublin, but that project was transferred to the newly createdRailway Procurement Agency (RPA).
CIÉ's services are provided through three operating companies:
CIÉ is responsible for the overall strategy of the group. It owns all fixed assets used by the three companies, such as railway lines and stations, the latter being dealt with through the Group Property division. It also operates an international tour division, CIÉ Tours International. CIÉ's vast number of advertising sites are organised through Commuter Advertising Network (CAN), since the mid-1990s employing an external company (currently Exterion Media Ireland) to manage them. There are also a number of shared services provided by CIÉ to its three operating companies.
Other than in the railway sector, CIÉ is not a monopoly provider of public transport services: a number ofother operators exist; however, under the Transport Act, 1932, these may not compete directly on any route for which CIÉ has been granted a licence. However, legislation was enacted in 2013 to provide for the tendering of 10% of routes operated by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. This public competition includes these two operators, along with private operators such asGo-Ahead Ireland, and was completed in January 2019.
Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) was formed as a private company by theTransport Act 1944 and incorporated theGreat Southern Railways Company andDublin United Transport Company, adopting the logo of the latter company, the so-called "flying snail".[2] Great Southern Railways (GSR) was incorporated in 1925, having beenGreat Southern Railway since 1924.[2] Essentially the GSR became – especially as it started to broaden its business interests into road transport – a monopoly transport operator.[3] TheTransport Act 1950 amalgamated CIÉ and theGrand Canal Company and formallynationalised CIÉ, changing its structure from that of a private limited company to a corporation under a board appointed by the Minister for Transport.[citation needed] TheGreat Northern Railway Act 1958 and theTransport Act (Northern Ireland) 1958 (c. 15 (N.I.)), passed by theParliament of Northern Ireland, transferred the lines of theGreat Northern Railway Board in the Republic of Ireland (includingCounty Donegal) to CIÉ.
Until 1986, CIÉ operated as a single legal entity, although it was internally organised into rail services and two bus divisions – Dublin City Services and Provincial Services. The vast majority of services were branded CIÉ, although long-distance provincial buses were branded "Expressway" and Dublin electric trainsDART. In 1987, CIÉ was reorganised into a holding company and three operating companies. In 1990, it sold its nineGreat Southern Hotels, including its hotel inDerry, toAer Rianta, the airports authority.[citation needed]
The company does not run any services onChristmas Day.
CIÉ was established to provide road and railway transport, and later took on some of the canals and ports. It was empowered as both a provider and a licensor of other providers.[citation needed]
For most of its existence, CIÉ, in particular its railways division, made large losses and was subsidised by the taxpayer. This provoked demands from the public and politicians to "make CIÉ pay". In a similar pattern to that seen in many other states, Ireland's railways were accordingly rationalised, and suffered severe cutbacks while at the same time the road division was expanded.[citation needed]
TheBaker Tilly report found an amount of corporate malpractice in 2004–08. CIÉ did not pass on the report to the Minister for Transport until it was mentioned in the media.[4]
Losses in 2009:
The biggest change to CIÉ's operational structure since 1987 came with the establishment of theNational Transport Authority in December 2009, which has powers over CIÉ's operations in theGreater Dublin Area. TheDublin Transport Authority Act 2008 also gives the Minister for Transport instead of the chairman of CIÉ the power to appoint the directors of the subsidiary companies. CIÉ receivespublic service obligation payments to support the provision of services on most of its routes.
In 2013, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann made a profit of €500,000 and €400,000 respectively, for the first time in a number of years.[7]
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