There have been some “proper tulips” among the last 17 Transport Ministers but none of them brought Bus Éireann to the brink of insolvency, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.
Transport Minister Shane Ross has repeated that it would be “absolutely wrong” of him to intervene in the “nitty gritty” of the Bus Éireann dispute, writes Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.
Commuters face chaos from Monday as Bus Éireann workers stage an all-out and indefinite strike.
Appearing before the Transport Committee Mr Ross said: “I have consistently said I won’t intervene directly but I have urged them to come to the table, which they did last week.”
However, AAA-PBP TD Mick Barry claimed Mr Ross would become “the first sole shareholder possibly…
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