23rd August 2014
Press Statement

General Secretary of the NBRU Dermot O’Leary blames Government and Company for Rail Disputes.

Mr O’Leary said:
“it is regrettable that the impact of the Company’s decision to cut our members wages will be widely felt by those who use the train as a mode of transport, in making their decision the Company, supported it would appear by the Minister, have chosen to ignore the concerns of staff in relation to the future of the railway”
Mr O’Leary went on to say.
“funding for public transport is a responsibility of Government not staff, the Minister, who is after all the shareholder needs to involve himself in addressing the underlying issues at play here, it is clear that you cannot strip out funding from a public service and expect that it would continue to operate at anything approaching the levels which currently obtain, staff do not have trust or confidence in either the Company or the Government with regard to the future sustainability of rail in this Country, asking them to plug a funding gap is not a sustainable platform from which to provide a public transport system