Photograph: iStockThe threat of strike action from hauliers continues to be on hold following a “positive” meeting on Friday with Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien. One would be an enhanced diesel rebate scheme, or another round of the Licensed Haulage Support Scheme (LHSS) which was set up in 2023 to ease pressures caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After O’Brien attends a meeting with European colleagues next week, the IRHA is due to meet the Minister again. Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien. “I certainly am of view that, coupled with a right to remote and flexible work, that we should definitely be trialing free public transport so that people who want to and people who aren’t able to get into work, will be able to do so cheaply by public transport,” he saidAhern said free public transport had been trialled in parts of Australia, and was also being considered by New York.

Source: The Irish Times April 04, 2026 04:50 UTC