Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Local Link Transport Services: Discussion

Mr. Tim Gaston:

We anticipate that we will double the number again this year with 70-odd services going in. Over the next two to three years of the programme I would anticipate that we will double the number again. We used to carry in the order of 25,000 passengers per week. At the minute we are heading to 60,000 passengers and we expect that figure to double over the next 12 months or so. During the remainder of the programme the number should double again, which means that the number of passengers is getting closer to where we think it should be. There will still be growth to do. When Connecting Ireland finishes, there will still be other changes to be made. It is not as if that will be an end and suddenly nothing. Subject to getting continued funding from the Government, and we are hopeful that we will get that funding, we expect to see that scale of change.

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