High-level team attempts to avert another strike at Dublin Bus

A team of the country’s most senior trade unionists, business leaders and civil servants has been tasked with making a last attempt to resolve the Dublin Bus dispute and avoid a strike.

The Government appointed the group — similar to the former National Implementation Body — to carry out “an urgent investigation of how the Labour Court recommendation in respect of cost reduction measures in Dublin Bus can be progressed”.

The body, which met for the first time yesterday, is made up Department of Transport secretary general Tom O’Mahony, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation secretary general John Murphy, Ictu general secretary David Begg and Ibec chief executive Danny McCoy.