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. J.J. Kavanagh:

Mountjoy Square was a regular parking area for coaches for many years. Somebody decided that, going forward, coaches would not be allowed into Mountjoy Square. In any venue around Europe, coaches get priority. Here, coaches are the last thing to be thought of. Say we drop a group at Croke Park today and the driver has to leave the area. He or she spends half an hour driving around trying to find safe parking. Then nobody knows where to access the coach on the way back because the driver will probably not get back to the same spot where the group was dropped off. The group is dispersed and it makes it very difficult and unsafe.

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