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The Daily PollYESTERDAY, FINE GAEL TD for Cork South West Jim Daly suggested that people with a free travel pass in Ireland should be required to pay a €6 fee to help ease Bus Éireann’s ongoing financial woes.
With about a quarter of the population of Ireland, 1.2 million people, entitled to free travel (although the numbers who actually possess a pass are less clear), Daly’s thinking is that an annual fee would be enough to wipe the semi-state bus company’s debts clear.
This morning it emerged that Bus Éireann believes the jobs of its entire staff of 2,600 people are at risk unless it finds a way of wiping clear its deficit of €6 million.
A recent report by consultants Grant Thornton had suggested that the company close its Expressway inter-city service as a cost-cutting measure, a move that would doubtless face vehement opposition across rural Ireland.
But what do you think?
We’re asking: Should people with a free travel pass have to pay a small charge for it?
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Kieran that is a nasty comment. It could happen anywhere..any town or city. A life has been lost and 2 families have been thrown in to turmoil over this. For godsake have some compassion.
AssTroll
Sad to hear of this death, could be a domestic, as the news is sketchy. However still very sad RIP.
Awful news thoughts are with there family at this time x
True though isn’t it!
This fellow is begging for attention and cannot get it only coming on here and making a total idiot of himself
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