Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Bus Coach Sector: Discussion

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----and we are talking about, as was said, the paradigm or modal shift. That is only possible if it makes economic sense to people and if the service is there. If neither of those two things is in play then we have a bad circumstance.

The council representatives have already dealt with the issue around the licensing and all the difficulties and the processes. A small issue that came to my attention was when one is taxing buses, is there a difficulty in that one still has to go into the motor tax office and provide certain extra documentation and whatever else? There can be particular rules in motor tax offices. There was one in the Louth office that it would only deal with three people at a time. It related to queuing and in fairness, the office said it would look at it. The office probably operated certain schemes whereby it would take more and do them through the week but that would not necessarily suit people.

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