A mediation process is due to get underway between Clare Accessible Transport and the National Transport Authority.
It follows an ongoing row between the two sides over money that the operators of Clare Bus claim is owed to them since last summer.
Clare Bus lost the contract to provide the local link service in March, when a new contract could not be agreed between them and the NTA.
Clare’s Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe has described this latest development as a significant breakthrough.
