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Originally Posted by karlr42
In my opinion it is not possible for CIE or any public transport operator to be cover its costs or make a profit. They require subvention and there must be a social and political willingness to subsidise it to the level required. So asking CIE to break even is asking for it to fail so it can be disposed of and privatisation can be introduced, thus moving all the revenue to the private sector, keeping the need to invest and subsidise with the state, and lowering the quality of public transport for the people.
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when you consider that the labour party are in government, and the role within that party of the trades union movement, and of the role within CIE of that movement you can be pretty sure that this will never happen.
but, as we have said, CIE looked for €36 million or it would cease to operate in 2012. Unlike his precedessors, Minister Veradkar took a close look at it and refused to simply write the cheque. Somehow they didnt need that extra money after all. There is a lot of bad deployment of resources within the system.