{"id":378645,"date":"2026-04-02T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378645\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:25:15","slug":"less-than-two-weeks-into-the-job-dublin-bus-ceo-billy-hann-was-grilled-by-politicians-over-the-reliability-of-its-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378645\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than two weeks into the job, Dublin Bus CEO Billy Hann was grilled by \u00adpoliticians over the reliability of its service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">His background in aviation informed structural changes that he hopes will see his plans for a top-class public service take off\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin Bus CEO Billy Hann. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/46dd8bbe-6cde-4ead-a22c-b08ceff5e81d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dublin Bus CEO Billy Hann. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Billy Hann had been leading Dublin Bus for less than a fortnight when he got a sense of just how exposed the role can be. \u201cI was called into an Oireachtas committee 13 days after starting as CEO,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The political scrutiny was justified, he hastens to add. \u201cThey were raising issues which I was starting to see very quickly. It was around reliability of our services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His background in aviation informed structural changes that he hopes will see his plans for a top-class public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,615,38283,61,60,38532],"class_list":{"0":"post-378645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-dublin-bus","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rory-mcginn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}