Transport strikes ‘will cost taxpayer €1m per day’

A SERIES of CIÉ strikes to begin next month will cost the taxpayer over €1m a day in lost fare revenue, Transport Minister Seamus Brennan warned yesterday.

Transport strikes ‘will cost taxpayer €1m per day’

Raising the stakes in his standoff with unions over the breakup of the company and the liberalisation of Dublin’s bus market, Minister Brennan told the Dáil Transport Committee he was disappointed at the decision to pursue industrial action.

The reform plans include the elimination of the CIÉ holding company and the introduction of a bus regulator to oversee the liberalisation of the Dublin bus market.

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