Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Martin Nolan:

To give one quick answer on health centres and so on, I will tell the committee what Bus Éireann does. The market has become very mercenary and goes after the areas where it makes profit. At Bus Éireann, we have a responsibility to our staff and we will not go to the lowest terms and conditions. We have a responsibility to the customer so we still go to places that we will stay in unless commercially it is completely unwise for us to do so. For example, on the Dublin-Wexford route, we still have services going to St. Vincent's Hospital. On the Limerick-Killarney-Tralee route, we still go to Rathkeale and Limerick General Hospital, where our competitors do not, so we will stay in such areas as long as we possibly can.

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