industry infrastructure & public transport state administrator founded 1 january 1945 headquarters heuston station dublin 8 ireland area served ireland key people vivienne jupp non executive chairman revenue 1.1064 billion 2014 1 operating income 47.8 million 2014 1 net income 9.8 million 2014 1 owner government of ireland 100 % parent department of transport tourism and sport subsidiaries iarnr d ireann dublin bus bus ireann website www.cie.ie c ras iompair ireann irish pronunciation ko s m p e r n irish transport system or ci is a statutory corporation of the republic of ireland answerable to the irish government and responsible for most public transport in ireland and jointly with its northern ireland counterpart the northern ireland transport holding company the railway service between ireland and northern ireland . the company is headquartered at heuston station dublin . it is a statutory corporation whose members the board are appointed by the minister for transport . contents 1 services 2 history 2.1 financial losses and the future 3 see also 4 references 5 external links services edit since the enactment of the transport re organisation of c ras iompair ireann act 1986 ci has been the holding company for bus ireann dublin bus and iarnr d ireann irish rail the three largest internal transport companies in ireland . it was originally to have operated the luas tram system in dublin but that project was transferred to the newly created railway procurement agency . ci s services are provided through three operating companies dublin bus which provides bus services in the greater dublin area including most bus services within dublin city and the former county dublin ; bus ireann which provides intercity and regional bus services outside dublin city and county and from dublin to the rest of the country as well as operating the city buses in cork limerick waterford and galway and a number of other small urban bus systems ; iarnr d ireann irish rail which operates intercity commuter and dart trains and together with ni railways the dublin belfast enterprise train service . ci 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 ci tours international . ci s vast number of advertising sites are organised through commuter advertising network can since the mid 1990s employing an external company currently cbs advertising to manage them . there are also a number of shared services provided by ci to its three operating companies . other than in the railway sector ci is not a monopoly provider of public transport services a number of other operators exist ; however under the transport act 1932 these may not compete directly on any route for which ci has been granted a licence . however legislation was enacted in 2013 to provide for the privatisation of 10 % of routes operated by dublin bus and bus ireann . this public competition will include these two operators and is set to be completed by late 2016 . history edit the flying snail logo 1944 1964 c ras iompair ireann was formed as a private company by the transport act 1944 and incorporated the great southern railways company and dublin united transport company adopting the logo of the latter company the so called flying snail . great southern railways was incorporated in 1925 having been great southern railway since 1924 . essentially it became especially as it started to broaden its business interests into road transport a monopoly transport operator . the transport act 1950 amalgamated ci and the grand canal company and formally nationalised ci changing its structure from that of a private limited company to a corporation under a board appointed by the minister for transport . the northern ireland great northern railway act 1958 transferred the lines of great northern railway board south of the border to ci . 1950s a ci truck loading agricultural products into a railway wagon until 1986 ci 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 ci although long distance provincial buses were branded expressway and dublin electric trains dart . in 1987 ci was reorganised into a holding company and three operating companies . in 1990 it sold its nine great southern hotels including its hotel in derry northern ireland to aer rianta the airports authority . the broken wheel logo introduced in 1964 and modernised in 2000 financial losses and the future edit ci 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 . for most of its existence ci in particular its railways division made large losses and was subsidised by the taxpayer . this provoked demands from the public and politicians to make ci pay . in a similar pattern that seen in many other countries ireland s railways were accordingly rationalised and suffered severe cutbacks while at the same time the road division was expanded . the baker tilly report found an amount of corporate malpractice in 2004 08 . ci did not pass on the report to the minister for transport until it was mentioned in the media . 2 losses in 2009 iarnr d ireann irish rail 4.0 m 3 bus ireann 54.1 m 4 current government policy is that ci should be abolished with the three individual companies focusing on their own business areas and thus increasing competitiveness . 5 this first move finally took place in 2013 with open tendering of bus routes set to take place in 2016 . full privatisation of dublin bus and bus ireann is expected by december 2019 . the biggest change to ci s operational structure since 1987 came with the establishment of the national transport authority in december 2009 which has powers over ci s operations in the greater dublin area . the dublin transport authority act 2008 also gives the minister for transport instead of the chairman of ci the power to appoint the directors of the subsidiary companies . ci receives public service obligation payments to support the provision of services on most of its routes . in 2013 dublin bus and bus ireann made a profit of 500 000 and 400 000 respectively for the first time in a number of years . 6 see also edit coaching stock of ireland diesel locomotives of ireland multiple units of ireland national transport authority rail transport in ireland railway procurement agency steam locomotives of ireland transportation in ireland references edit a b c ci . ci annual report 2014 pdf . retrieved 2015 06 01 . the baker tilly report into ci iarnr d ireann . thestory.ie . third party works pdf . irish rail . http www.buseireann.ie pdf 1281366820 accounts2009finalenglish.pdf statement on public transport reform minister for transport seamus brennan november 2002 dublin bus and bus eireann turn profits for first time in years . independent.ie . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to c ras iompair ireann . official website v t e ci bus ireann irish bus dublin bus bus tha cliath iarnr d ireann irish rail retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ci & oldid 722981123 categories c ras iompair ireannentities with irish namesrail transport in northern irelandrail transport in the republic of irelandrailway companies of the republic of irelandhidden categories engvarb from october 2013use dmy dates from october 2013commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction 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