Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Has anyone from the Minister's Department or from the NTA or some independent person gone in to look at the salaries of senior management in Bus Éireann? I am led to believe that in one depot, there are 19 people on over €1,500 per week. There are four people as managers on €100,000 a year. Rather than looking at the lowly paid bus driver, has anyone gone in to examine redundancies or the salaries that are being paid at senior management level?

Does the Minister agree that under the PSO situation around rural Ireland, fewer and fewer Bus Éireann buses will be able to compete and are competing on runs? Are we moving towards a fully privatised system in rural Ireland?