Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will raise the issue with the Minister again. I assure Deputies that the NTA is engaging regularly with Go-Ahead Ireland on the service provision issues currently being experienced on the PSO network. The NTA is also providing regular updates to the Department of Transport on these issues.

Regarding poor reliability and punctuality performance issues, they can and have resulted in financial penalties for operators. As part of the performance monitoring process, penalties were applied to Go-Ahead Ireland for quarter 4 of 2021 and quarter 1 of 2022 at €266,968 and €209,188, respectively.

Regarding the specific issues being experienced with service reliability, I assure all Deputies that the NTA has raised these matters with Go-Ahead Ireland and will continue to monitor and engage closely with the operator in an effort to improve the situation. I have no doubt that the Minister will keep Deputies up to date on the driver complement up to December.

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