Public Transport is to be scaled back to manage the spread of COVID19.
Revised timetables for Irish Rail, Bus Eireann, Dublin Bus and Go Ahead will come into effect next week.
Services will run at approximately 80 per cent of current levels.
Dermot O'Leary, from the National Bus and Rail Union, welcomes scaling back of public transport.
But he says it's vital services aren't cancelled completely.
"We have to be realsitic, and in terms of the emergency crisis and the public health crisis we're in the middle of, the fact that public transport is still operating and it's a vital service, it's imperative that public transport continues to operate and our members are committed to doing whatever is required by Government to keep those wheels turning.
"Whilst we understand the requirement to scale back, we are comforted by the fact that the social distancing that is vital to people on the frontline can still be implemented and enabled."
