Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Andrea Keane:

That is no problem at all. We have updated the committee that we are 120 drivers short at present. With the number of live applications that we have, and the throughput into our training school, we estimate that it will be the end of the first quarter, probably March, before we have that gap fully bridged. There will be incremental improvements every week. We have updated the committee to the effect that we had 39 drivers come through the system up to mid-December, since we were last here with the committee on 8 November. That has certainly helped and, as Mr. Rogan noted, it will help for the Christmas period. We are probably talking about the end of March before we have the full 120.

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