Improved Rail Passenger Rights with Compensation for Delays and Cancellations Bill 2024
Public bill · Private Member · Introduced
It would require the National Transport Authority to examine how Ireland could give rail passengers stronger rights than the current minimum EU rules, especially for delays and cancellations. It also proposes tiered compensation: 25% back for delays of 20–39 minutes, 50% for 40–59 minutes, and a full refund for delays over 60 minutes, paid as cash or a voucher. The NTA would also have to keep reporting on how rail passenger rights are being implemented and enforced, and those reports would be made public.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to require the National Transport Authority (NTA) to produce a report, to be delivered to the Minister of the Government with responsibility for a Department of State covering rail transport on the way in which the State may improve and strengthen rail passenger rights above and beyond the minimum requirements set down in EU secondary law, including Regulation 2021/782, with particular regard to delayed and cancelled railway services, including the modalities of rail passengers rights on the access to compensation for delays and cancellations; to require the NTA to periodically produce a report to be delivered to the Minister of the Government with responsibility for a Department of State covering rail transport on the implementation of the EU secondary law and national law on rail passenger rights; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 30 January 2025
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