An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-12
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Tomorrow the National Bus and Rail Union will be balloting all its members over industrial action on our buses. SIPTU has also indicated it plans to support the action of bus drivers. I have not got time to go into the detail other than to say it is about the harassment of drivers by Dublin Bus over profiles, key performance indicators, KPIs, and a "Press it" box system. The only thing people might recognise is where buses are forced to stop for periods of time, putting drivers under a lot of pressure and then they are getting bookings over this, so harassing drivers. Being a bus driver, by the way, is a very stressful job and bus drivers are facing constant harassment and are now being booked for this. They are being forced to consider taking industrial action to stop this harassment by Dublin Bus.
I want the Minister for Transport, Deputy O'Brien, to intervene in this and recognise that bus drivers doing a very stressful job should not be harassed in this way and forced to consider industrial action.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-12