Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Urban Public and Sustainable Transport: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Dervla McKay:
In terms of the large events, we put on some additional services with approval from the authority for some of the bigger events, particularly services from the airport, but, as Mr. Hann said, contractually we are not really set up to do that. In terms of getting a new timetable, the current process to be able to update the on-street signs would require an updated file from our scheduling system and then it would be required to go through the internal NTA technology processes, which I am not overly close with. That would take some time. If, for an example, on a Friday we knew something else was happening on the Saturday, under the current system there is no way we would get into a timetable and get that on the street and in the app, but there is the potential to get what I would call in my own terminology "a duplicate service", if there was approval from a funding perspective from the authority. While the customer might not see the capacity, it would still be there. It would at least be still clearing the bus stops for the people who are turning up. It is not possible to currently do that ahead of time.
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