Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Bus Coach Sector: Discussion

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am just trying to get a handle on what is and what is not in. We have had many issues with Go-Ahead in terms of driver shortages, services not appearing and so on. I will address those issues to representatives of Go-Ahead on a different day as I do not want to be giving the CTTC the flak for an organisation it does not represent. There were four main points in the presentation and I was listening to the responses on the various items raised. As somebody based and living in Dublin, I do not get the same level of queries about school transport because those who use it are either on Dublin Bus or Go-Ahead services, or are in schools which contract the CTTC members to provide solely private services. I was hoping to flush out one point. How much of the business of the sector and the members represented by the CTTC is what we might call the licensed routes in various places, versus organisations being contracted by schools to bring people on school tours, to swimming lessons, rugby, soccer and Gaelic football matches? What percentage of the CTTC business involves fares being taken by the driver or through tapping or whatever, and what percentage is private services for all kinds of events?

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