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:

We provide the service and all costs we have are covered by the Department. However, it is a very important point that, as I said at the beginning with regard to the Expressway service, the solution can only be achieved through savings throughout a significant proportion of our cost base in the organisation, because we share so many services, including school services, PSO routes and the Expressway service. If we achieve savings, we do so not only for the Expressway service but also for PSO routes and school services. My view is we will maintain services but we will provide more value for money for the taxpayer.

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