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

Ms Anne Graham:

We inherited a number of years ago a very complicated fare structure across all the operators. We have been focusing first on Dublin Bus because it carries the most public transport passengers. We have also worked very closely with Iarnród Éireann, as I said. It took us five years to achieve fare changes and a fare structure for the commuter short hop zone for Irish Rail. These are long processes. It takes a number of years not only to identify the anomalies in the fare structure but also to put in place the revised fare structure because it could mean either significant increases in fares or significant decreases in some fares. We have not arrived at what the fare structure will be for Bus Éireann-----

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