Mr. Greg Ennis:

Some €32,000 a year for driving a bus is just about bearable, but the allowances are being savaged. All the members have not had a pay increase for nine years. Going beyond that, on 1 June 2013, there was a 19-month pay cut to try to keep this company afloat. This has been breaking down for some time. We cannot have a situation where the workers in Bus Éireann are being utilised to subsidise a system that is broken. The only way to fix the system is to get all the protagonists in to solve it. However, if the company continues with its line that it will do this unilaterally from 20 February, then we have no choice but to take all-out strike action. We cannot be in a place where types of industrial action are intermittent and we go back into work on terms that are inferior to those we already have.