Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

2:30 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is worth noting that figure. The subsidy Bus Éireann gets is €40 million divided by approximately 3.5 million. I note a little goes to rural transport.

I will move on to my next question. Can Mr. Hernan explain why some of Bus Éireann cost per mile twice as much as other services? I do not want to be parochial but, for example, and this is replicated right across the country, it will cost one twice as much to go from Galway to An Tulach, Baile Na hAbhann, which is near enough to Carraroe, as it will to go from Galway to Gort. Can Mr. Hernan explain the logic behind Bus Éireann's pricing system? The charges on the much more highly populated route are twice as much as on the other route.

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