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Bribes for bus routes

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  • #2
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    So bus eireann did their own investigation into corruption {snip - keep that kind of speculation where you're pointing fingers to individual off here -- moderator}

    I would find that more worrying than evidence of bribes for routes.


  • #3
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Note to all: Keep speculation where you're pointing fingers at individual off here

    Tread carefully and remember there's no free speech on here (or in Ireland in general) and you need to read the rules before posting.

    Foggy: If you can't help not to speculate about individual or even broadly without any backing you're being asked not to post.

    -- Moderator


  • #4
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    All part of the pre-trial posturing in advance of the proposed STS,Supreme Court challenge.

    Confirmed at the end of last year,the action is presumably "Pending" ?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/transport-and-tourism/supreme-court-challenge-to-150m-a-year-school-transport-service-to-go-ahead-1.1631218

    Mind you,there appears to be an interesting slant to the ongoing funding of the Supreme Court element after the High Court struck down the original case...
    The company lodged the cash needed with the High Court yesterday. It has raised the €201,439 required from private backers, which it did not name, rather than asking IC Bus, which has already provided €245,000.

    In a statement, it said that it had made a conscious decision not to ask the US company because of the “embarrassing way they were treated in Ireland in this case”.

    Given that the IC Bus funding was for the High Court case,including it in the Supreme Court funding could be said to be disingenuous to some observers ?

    I'm also intrigued by any reference to "Embarrassment" being a barrier to securing any form of legal financing...this may definitely be a "First" in Irish Legal terms ?

    As an aside,could we have the words "School Bus" inserted into the header,just to define the issue a bit clearer,as I'm sure many raced here in breathless anticipation of reading something about the 59 or 111 routes :D:D:D


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  • #5
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,258 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Given that the IC Bus funding was for the High Court case,including it in the Supreme Court funding could be said to be disingenuous to some observers ?

    I'm also intrigued by any reference to "Embarrassment" being a barrier to securing any form of legal financing...this may definitely be a "First" in Irish Legal terms ?

    Curious to know why this is causing a private company, who want to enter the school bus market to make money, "embarrassment" to ask it's owners for cash for this case.

    Curiouser to know who these private backers are, as well as their motives.


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