Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Bus Services: Bus Éireann and the National Transport Authority

10:00 am

Mr. Aidan Murphy:

It is also important to note that many of our customers travel with Department of Social Protection passes and so on. We honour those passes and we provide services in the connecting towns and so on. That is a kind of a hidden piece. We have to be conscious that it does not come as direct revenue into our stream. In light of our background as a complete network provider across rural areas in the previous situation - that function is now with the NTA - we are conscious of and understand the market very clearly. I refer particularly to the connectivity piece.

That is why our brand strapline is "making good connections". We understand that. We wish to provide that level of service and interconnectivity. Clearly, we have to do it against the competitive background in which we find ourselves.