Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

Rural Bus Transport: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Allen Parker:

As Mr. O'Donovan said, it is probably a matter of the volume of change we are handling, thankfully. As such, it is a growth in environment where we are dealing with additional demand and capacity and passenger demands. It is trying to work through everything. Ultimately, once the decision is made on what the new route will be, the next process will be building the vehicle links, the driver rosters and the discussion and negotiation with our employees on the change to rosters. Again, that is happening across the country. Thankfully, we have put in significant service enhancements across the country. Unfortunately, we cannot do everything at once but, as Mr. O'Donovan said, we are aiming to get that service by the end of the year. We will come back to the Deputy directly with the timelines on that.

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