Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The only reason the public transport forum has not taken place is that there have been continuous industrial problems. There is a ballot today. If it is successful in bringing the sides together or getting agreement, there will not be any industrial dispute. It is my intention, the moment we have that window, to have the letters to go out. We have had them ready several times. We will then have the forum. We have had a few false starts where we had actually been ready to hold the forum and had the location but there was then an industrial dispute.