Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport
9:00 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
The subvention we have been talking about relates to PSO services that are socially necessary but economically unviable. Bus Éireann operates its commercial Expressway services in the commercial market. It does not get a subsidy in relation to those services. It competes with a range of other players in the market on its Expressway routes. There are between 23 million and 24 million passengers in the commercial-----