Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport
9:00 am
Mr. Stephen Kent:
It is partly due to decisions made by the Department on the replacement of services which we provided directly. For several years there has been a policy of contracting out services where demand had diminished. Typically, we directly employed part-time school bus drivers. As each retired, a decision was made on whether to replace the driver or contract out the service. In recent years, more services have been contracted out than new drivers hired.
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