There is a constant barrage from the Fianna Fail - Fine Gael Coalition Government and National media ie complicit propaganda media RTE , INM Dennis O'Brien journals and radio stations to privatize state built infrastructure. Year after year state funding to transport has been cut, thus bleeding the services dry. Mary and Paddy Joe are amazed at how successful the private bus companies are but are not aware that they operate on the most lucrative routes. While Buseireann bled dry from Fine Gael LabourIreland - Fianna Fail cuts to public funding , struggle to service the rest of the country. As Chomsky has said, if you want to privatize something, break it first. This fall, more lucrative Dublin suburban services have been awarded to private companies. Again the national service provider Dublin Bus will be stripped of valuable revenue. Again the national state service will provide for the unprofitable but essential services.
The following pictorial information shows how the private companies have no interest in unprofitable routes and may charge twice and three times more than the Buseireann fare. With 700,000 people on hospital waiting lists, over 7000 homeless children, women's bodies owned by the state and a highly censored & bullied media. The powers that B make British colonialism look like Ireland's fairy god-mother.
