Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion

Mr. Andrew Edwards:

I thank the Deputy. To answer her first question around the reliability of our services, we are seeing week-on-week improvements in the past four or five weeks. We are at 97% reliability for the last week, 1% off our contractual requirements. As I explained, we have a strong pipeline of people coming through the training department. As they come out week by week, we will continue to see improvements across all our services in the Deputy's area and our whole network. We are looking at four to six weeks, if everything goes to our current plan and timelines. By January we anticipate being in a strong position to operate all our services.

The Deputy asked about females in the industry. We are always looking for females. We are seeing female applicants coming in. We as an industry probably need to do more to encourage women into the industry.