Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion
Mr. Stephen Kent:
We are planning for Limerick city. As Deputy Crowe is aware, the consultation is out for BusConnects for Limerick city. Once we know where all of those are going to land, we will get ready. There is no doubt about it, at the minute, Limerick is a very tight market for drivers. We have commented on that before. I am here with Ms Jean O'Sullivan, who is our chief people officer. She is out driving the recruitment campaigns. At the moment we are not entirely limited. At this particular point what happens is that in the business, we tend to try to work through what we call summer annual leave. We are in that period. We take a number of drivers in to work on part-time shifts and all of that. Anybody we take in, by and large at the moment, is coming in on a longer-term basis, so we are going to be ready for Limerick. There is some short-term need on the 343 service that is currently going between Shannon and Ennis-----
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