Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed)
11:00 am
Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Of course I will. The number has increased by 4 million since 2010 or 9%. Last year the total number of Bus Éireann PSO passengers was 32 million.
I shall answer the Deputy's question on the report that was received last night. I concede that members will not have had time to digest the report. Members will have plenty of time to digest it soon. The report could not be just produced for members. It needed redaction, which I had warned and told members about. It was not just a matter of producing the report. The report had to be perused very carefully because it contained commercially sensitive information, which members accepted.