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
Ms Anne Graham:
As I said to the Deputy, that is not our role. Our role is to ensure that they are licensed under the Public Transport Regulation Act. This is really about establishing and looking at the demand for those services and the proper stopping locations. Tourism policy is the responsibility of Fáilte Ireland, which is another authority. If that authority were to engage with us, the licensing authority, about what public transport can do, that would be something different. When we get an application for a licence, it is from a commercial business that has made a decision on what kind of service it wants to offer. We are not in a position to encourage it to do anything else with its commercial business. Like a normal licence for public transport service that is just for commuters or other passengers, if it decides to stop at a particular location, we will examine the demand, but we will not be requiring an operator to stay at a particular location for any particular time. That is not something that we-----
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