Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
School Transport Scheme: Bus Éireann
3:55 pm
Mr. Martin Nolan:
On collusion, although I will pass on to my school transport manager in a second, there have been three instances of cartel practice over the past 15 years or so that we have had to deal with. They led to some stoppages but we sorted them out.
Mr. Gannon will go into the matter of contractors' below-cost selling. We have minimum criteria that they have to meet. They have to have a vehicle of a certain age and certain standard, all the various tax clearance certificates, etc. Once one meets all of those standards, it is down to an award metrics which Mr. Gannon will explain.