Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Bus Coach Sector: Discussion
Mr. Brendan Crowley:
It is the same scenario. What is lost much of the time is that commercial bus operators are not asking for money for commercial bus operators because it is the end user who gains. It is the customer who gains. The coach operator will get paid regardless of who is paying for it. Right now, the technology introduced for the young adult card is working well. That was handled well by the NTA and launched in a short space of time, with co-operation from us on a working group. It is there and it is up and running. That technology could be used tomorrow morning to extend the 20% reduction. It is an electronic verifiable process that none of us would have any input into other than the IT equipment, which is the NTA's own system. It is possible.
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