The National Transport Authority (NTA) has published its statistical bulletins regarding Commercial Bus Services in Ireland for both 2019 and 2020. These bulletins relate to any regular licensed public bus passenger service with an origin, intermediate point, or a destination within the Republic of Ireland. Bus services subject to an authorisation that are travelling to, from or through Northern Ireland and then into this State are also included. 

This statistical bulletin is a publication of the National Transport Authority of Ireland. It focuses on bus statistics for licensed public bus passenger services operating to a regular schedule in Ireland. The Authority was established under the Dublin Transport Authority Act, 2008 (as amended) and the Public Transport Regulation Act, 2009 (as amended) and is required1 to “collect, compile, analyse and prepare information, data or statistics” regarding public transport services in Ireland.

The data in this bulletin covers statistical information for all regular public bus passenger services across the entire State for the years 2013 to 2019 and for the Greater Dublin Area (the “GDA”) for the years 2012 to 2019.

High level information on State funded services which are provided under contract to the Authority referred to as Public Service Obligation (“PSO”) services, has also been included for comparative purposes. The Authority publishes a separate bulletin on State funded services “Bus and Rail Statistics for Ireland – State Funded Services” which can be found on the Authority’s website at: https://www.nationaltransport.ie/publications/statistics/bulletins/