Criminal wrongdoing claims at Bus Éireann

Documents containing serious allegations of criminal wrongdoing by some Bus Éireann staff as well as operators dealing with the bus company, have been forwarded to gardaí by an Oireachtas committee.

A report in a Sunday newspaper last month alleged that employees of Bus Éireann took “kickbacks” in the form of free holidays and gifts in exchange for contracts.

Last month Transport Minister Leo Varadkar, and junior ministers Alan Kelly and Ciaran Cannon, issued a statement on the matter saying “corruption is a criminal offence” and they “treat any such allegations extremely seriously”.