Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion

Ms Dervla McKay:

I agree with everything that Mr. Hann just said. We have similar processes with the NTA and also meet its representatives weekly. We have put additional services in place, for example, on our Dublin commuter services into the city, where we had seen quite acute issues in terms of capacity because the services had been so successful. We can see this in the year-on-year increases. Again, like Mr. Hann said, the pinch points are not consistent all the time. The NTA's role lies in balancing the needs of the overall growth programme with the need to increase capacity on the existing services and having the funding to do that. Equally, there is the aspect of us having the resources in the form of our drivers, mechanics and vehicles. It is about weighing up all these factors. We do, though, continue to invest actively but it is not a process we can complete overnight for the reasons we have been discussing.

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