Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority
1:30 pm
Mr. Jeremy Ryan:
In the case of Dublin, we expect the mechanic issue to be largely resolved this autumn. Forty mechanics have been recruited from the Philippines and we expect they are coming over to work in Dublin between now and September. That should alleviate the issues that were in Dublin, which were really preventing us from growing the network in Dublin as we had planned.
In Cork, there are ongoing driver issues. There are less than there were, but there is still a shortfall of 30 or 35 drivers. That is down from around 45 or 50 earlier in the year. Again, there is an intensive recruitment campaign going on by Bus Éireann in Cork now. At the moment, it is anticipating that it will be successful, and we can do what we need to do in September. As I said, we will have to watch this space.
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