Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is absolutely right to ring the alarm bells that there is a real and serious threat to the free travel pass given the review of the scheme, talk of there not being enough money to meet increased demand and cuts in the subsidies to Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. Aside from all that, when the Government says it has completely protected the free travel scheme to date, even that is not true. Free travel passes are already being taken away from people wherever routes have been outsourced, including national routes and those in Dublin.

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