Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Bus Éireann and Bus Átha Cliath: Chairpersons Designate

Ms Miriam Hughes:

We are conscious of all of those drivers and the Chair is right that they make a great contribution to that service. We are in constant negotiation and conversation with the Department of Education because we run that service on its behalf. We are working closely with the Department to try to see what support, if any, is possible. That is an ongoing conversation and as we get into the return of the school year it will become heightened for those contracted drivers.