It looks to me like the authority will be given to the new entity when all the decisions have been made, thus pulling off a classic bertie ahern manouvre.
One thing the authority will have no say in is the pricing structure for the luas. This would have been entered in contracts signed with connex, now some other name.
Similarly with dublin bus. The current round of partnership talks will decide most , if not all , of what happens in the next 3 years for CIE.
And the rpa is going to decide the routing for the underground tram before it becomes extinct.
The authority does not appear to have the power to refuse projects , say if they dont make any sense. Like say the metro which proposes to carry 20,000 people an hour , when only around 80 thousand cars pass through the canal cordon.
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