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Drivers call for proper funding of Bus Éireann

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The all-out strike at the company has been in place since last Friday with pickets at depots in Tipperary and across the country.

This has led to travel chaos for thousands of commuters.

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A public meeting is being held in Carrick on Suir tomorrow evening in the Nano Nagle centre to discuss the effect on the bus services now and in the future.

Local driver Mark Fitzgerald says there's a difference between what they want from Transport Minister Shane Ross and a handout.

Meanwhile Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has laid the blame for Bus Éireann’s financial difficulties at the door of the National Transport Authority.

The company says it’s facing insolvency unless major cost savings are made.

The Clonmel – Dublin Expressway service is the first in the firing line – it’s due to end on April 2nd.

However Deputy Mattie McGrath says the National Transport Authority has played a big part in the crisis Bus Éireann finds itself in by issues licences to private operators allowing them to leave depots half an hour before Bus Éireann’s service on the same route.

The head of the National Bus and Rail Union says he may not be able to stop his members at Irish Rail and Dublin Bus from going on a 'wild cat' strike.

SIPTU is to ballot its members in Irish Rail and Dublin Bus, following a threat yesterday by Bus Éireann that compulsory redundancies may be unavoidable.

But Dermot O'Leary from the NBRU says on legal advice he won't be balloting his members.

However he says the longer the strike continues, the more likely it is that others in the sector will join the picket lines.

Bus drivers in Clonmel last Friday were highly critical of Deputy McGrath for not visiting them on the picket line – saying he was more worried about wearing a daffodil in the Dail.

But speaking on Tipp Today Mattie McGrath said Daffodil Day for the Irish Cancer Society was something which took priority over most other issues.

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