Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion

Ms Anne Graham:

I will start with the last question. It is difficult for us to counteract any misinformation that is done in advance of the services. We would like for the services to speak for themselves, once they are implemented. Generally, we find that there can be a bit of noise in advance because when people see a service is going to change, they do not put that with the existing services and that, by interchanging, as well as the fact there is the TFI 90-minute fare, it could actually make their journeys shorter. The best thing for us to do is to make sure that, with our operators, we deliver those new services and let those services speak for themselves.

We will take away all the issues the Deputy raised, look at them and we can respond to him on each of those. We know there are capacity issues across the network and we acknowledged that earlier. We will look at it and, if there is a requirement to increase capacity, we will do that if we can get both the financial and staff resources to be able to deliver those.

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