Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development
Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed)
10:30 am
Mr. Ray Hernan:
My commitment to the Deputy is I will get the specific details and revert to him directly. He referenced sub-contracting. There has been an increase in the level of sub-contracting buses since last October, but I am relieved to see the level declining. The Deputy asked whether we faced challenges in terms of the availability of buses with the appropriate ticket machines on board. No, we did not. To ensure the continuity of services for our customers, first and foremost, I made a decision that, in some instances, we would have cash fares. However, we have invested in ticket machines. Bar a very rare exception at this point, all sub-contracted services, as well as all of our own, now have ticket machines that can also accept the Leap card across the entire network.
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