Catherine Coffey, Workers’ Party candidate for Cork City North West said that there was no faith in the present government’s ability to deliver a light rail service to Cork city when it cannot provide adequate numbers of modern vehicles for the existing bus service. Photoshopping a Dublin Luas tram into Washington Street does not make [...]
Minister for Transport Shane Ross must urgently reclassify the Palmerstown Bypass as a National Road, David Gardiner, the Workers’ Party representative for Palmerstown-Fonthill, has said. Gardiner said: “Back when the current Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was Minister for Transport in 2012, his Department reclassified parts of the N4 as a regional road. This means that the [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan of the Workers’ Party has deplored the decision by the National Transport Authority (NTA) to privatise yet more routes operated by Bus Éireann and said that instead the NTA itself should be abolished. Cllr. Tynan said that since its inception the NTA had shown that it was only interested in pursuing an [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party have said that the tender criteria used by the National Transport Authority (NTA) to select operator Go Ahead for six Kildare bus routes exposes the NTA’s wage reduction agenda. Workers’ Party representative in Dublin Northwest, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, said: “NTA CEO Ann Graham has said that privatising these routes [...]
There have been calls this morning for the government to initiate a process of nationalising Aer Lingus, in the wake of the latest spate of cancellations of Ryanair flights. Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, Dublin) said the Ryanair debacle has exposed just how vulnerable Ireland is in the absence of a state-owned airline, saying: “What [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan The Workers’ Party have said that the latest crisis at Irish Rail is the result of years of underfunding and one of the lowest levels of state subvention per capita in Europe. Cllr. Ted Tynan, Workers’ Party Cork City councillor, said that there seemed to be a clear choreography in [...]
Séamus McDonagh, Workers' Party representative for Meath, has called for the government to step into the Bus Éireann dispute, by putting in place a Registered Employment Agreement (REA) for bus workers. Speaking following the breakdown of talks today (April 11th) McDonagh said: The breakdown of talks today come as no suprise to workers in Bus [...]
Bus Éireann workers have today lodged a petition with RTÉ calling for fair coverage of strike action. The letter, which was drafted and submitted by the Workers’ Party with hundreds of signatures from Bus Éireann workers in Meath, Cork and Dublin, expressed its disappointment at the bias of RTÉ coverage in favour of Bus Éireann [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The National Transport Authority (NTA) has faced accusations of favoring privatisation of transport following its comments yesterday (28/2) that private operators can adequately cover all but one Bus Éireann Expressway routes currently facing closure. Speaking in reaction to the NTA’s comments, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) said: [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party Cork city councillor Ted Tynan has compared Transport Minister Shane Ross’s refusal to ensure the survival of Bus Éireann with the historical Emperor Nero who famously fiddled while Rome burned. Cllr. Tynan said that Minister Ross was acting as if the current crisis in the state owned bus [...]
