Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Traffic Congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and Related Matters: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The reason I put that down as a capacity enhancement is that the Go-Ahead services will commence in the third quarter of this year. They will bring approximately 300 new drivers into the system. All the Dublin Bus drivers will still be there and when September comes, we will have more drivers available to drive more routes.

We are investing in more buses. This year, 140 buses are being purchased. For Deputy Munster's information, the steady-state replacement rate - in other words, what one needs to replace year on year - for Dublin Bus is approximately 80 buses. We are purchasing 140 this year in total. In answer to Deputy Troy's question, we have actually purchased in excess of the steady-state replacement rate for the past number of years. Last year, I think 102 or 110-----

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