Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann

3:35 pm

Mr. Martin Nolan:

It is a demand-led service. The Department sanctions it and we run it. In addition, in budget 2010 the Government decided that there would be a number of policy changes, some of which we introduced ourselves, and there was a target in those changes - different charges for schoolchildren and closed school rules. The target for savings on those areas alone was approximately €17 million and we have delivered them as part of the €30 million as well.