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
Mr. Allen Parker:
The 115 is a Bus Éireann service to Mullingar. Again, we have reasonably good delivery. We are at 99% service delivery over the last four-week period. We do have issues; the Deputy obviously raised the issue about the incident we had last week, and we had to deal with that. That caused some disruption. Similarly, where we potentially do have cancellations, they should be marked up on the control system. I think it is only that if a bus is not tracking and there is an onboard system issue, that is when you would see the "scheduled" data.
We have had good delivery and strong passenger growth with significant service enhancements on the 115 over the last 12 months, including increasing the capacity with double-deck, low-floor coaches from the NTA. There has been good growth, and more to go but we are performing well.
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