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

Bus Éireann may claim that it is in a semi-viable situation because the NTA will not grant it a PSO for many of its Expressway routes which provide the social service of stopping in towns along the way. Therefore, it may apply to the NTA to get rid of all the uneconomic towns on the routes to save money. In doing so it would only be looking for the same kinds of licences granted to the other operators on the route, which go end to end, Dublin to Cork and so on. What approach would the NTA take to such a request?