Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I thank the witnesses, they are very welcome. To put it on the record, I would have regarded the letter of 16 January as putting down a marker and I am not surprised at the response there has been to it. The one thing that would be very regrettable for everyone, workers and the travelling public, would be a strike, which would have to be solved at some point in any event. Let us hope that the meeting today is fruitful.

To clear my own head on this, when we decided to have several hearings on public transport we were looking at it from the point of view of delivering a sustainable public transport system into the future, not that there was going to be a dispute imminent. That was the context of this and there is an issue of sustainability in regard to the subject matter we are talking about today. Would the 19% of Bus Éireann passengers that travel on Expressway services be the only group affected? Is that correct? They are the only group that are affected by the letter of 16 January? Is that the totality?