Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 3:

(a) To insert the following after “struggled to compete with new market entrants in recent years;”:

“ — Bus Éireann’s commercial service, Expressway, has suffered from falling revenues in part due to saturation of the market owing to poor licencing practice by the National Transport Authority;” and

(b) To insert the following after “amendments by Bus Éireann and private operators”:

“— demonstrate leadership by agreeing to intervene in the crisis and recommend to Bus Éireann management that proposed cost-cutting measures are set aside to allow for negotiations between all stakeholders;

— commit to carrying out and publishing a full review of operations of the Expressway service and the Expressway market;

— commit, in conjunction with the NTA, to carry out and publish a review of loss-making routes on which private carriers currently operate, including the number of private licences issued on these routes, when these licences were issued and when these routes ceased to make a profit due to oversaturation, and to provide for the NTA to review the renewal of such licences that are making a loss; and

—commit to publishing details of routes and services that have been identified for potential closure.”

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