Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 February 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)
2:30 pm
Mr. Ray Hernan:
We have applied for licences. One can either apply for a licence for a non-stop service or for a service that has a number of extra stops. We have a mix across various routes. We would like to think by going into those other locations we have the opportunity to pick up more customers. A good example of that would be on the service between Galway and Dublin. We have a number of stops between Galway and Athlone and at Athlone we pick up a significant number of passengers to continue on that route to Dublin. The other providers miss out on that opportunity.