Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme

9:00 am

Mr. Ray Hernan:

I do not have a definitive number yet. The objective is to maximise the amount of non-payroll savings that we can achieve so that we minimise the impact on our staff and their take-home pay. The issue that we need to address within our payroll, however, is not the basic pay. I do not have an issue with the basic pay levels that exist within our organisation. The challenge, and what causes the higher cost from a payroll perspective for us, are the premia payments that we pay. That is overtime rates, shift allowances, rota allowances and lunch expenses. There is a significant amount of these. We need to engage with the unions to bring us back more in line with what I believe exists in the rest of the marketplace.

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