Private companies to complain over State school bus scheme [IrishTimes]
- Published: 01 November 2011
PRIVATE BUS companies are to lodge a complaint with the European Commission about Ireland’s management of its school transport system.
The Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland, which represents private bus companies, claims the contract for the school transport scheme contravenes EU law because it is given by the Department of Education to Bus Éireann without a tender procedure.
The organisation also wants the EU to investigate if State aid laws are being broken “because it appears that Bus Éireann’s commercial expressway division receives profits from the school transport scheme”.
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