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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Change the narrative.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----to increased expenditure and so on. There has been inflation, coming out of the war in Ukraine. We all know that. Everybody knows there was a period coming out of the start of that war and coming after Covid where the cost of building materials, in particular, went through the roof. We know that from some of the road projects. Some of those road projects we approved, where the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Dessie Ellis: The price does not matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----which were being evaluated was such that its Deputies in here said they wanted the project to get done and asked why we were delaying it. The Dunkettle interchange is an example. It is an exceptional piece of work from an engineering perspective on the way into the Jack Lynch Tunnel, but I recall that when we went back to tender to get better value for money compared with the original...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Minister for that information. He is right in what he is saying. Passenger numbers are looking positive. Services have been rolled out in the towns that have been mentioned, in Youghal, Mitchelstown and Mallow. On behalf of the people of Ladysbridge, Ballymacoda, Lisgoold, Shanagarry, Garryvoe, of those important local villages in the east Cork area, I want to make the case...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: On Connecting Ireland and the Local Link services, this new massive expansion in rural public transport has primarily been delivered by Local Link services. Bus Éireann has had a role too but Local Link has been central. I am glad that hopefully now NTA has agreed contract terms with all the Local Link providers for the next phase of their contract. We have also commissioned a review...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I appreciate the Minister's engagement on this. It is probably our final exchange in the current Dáil term. I do not know if we will be back again for another round of these parliamentary questions. Throughout your term, Minister, I have enjoyed dealing with you. We have very different political views on many issues. I wish you a long and happy retirement from this House. You have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: An easy question for the Minister to answer.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy for his kind words. I was only thinking of him yesterday. I happened to be reading up on all the various parliamentary questions and so on. I was reading an update on the Castlemartyr and Killeagh bypasses. Hopefully in the not-too-distant future we are going to get where we want, that detailed report as to how we would address the traffic congestion in those two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken to address the efficiency and reliability issues with the 30 and X30 bus service which runs between Cavan and Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42114/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: What actions has the Minister taken to address the efficiency and reliability issues with the 30 and X30 bus service, which runs between Cavan and Dublin Airport? The service begins in Donegal, goes through Fermanagh and Cavan and then on to the airport.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I first should clarify that both the 30 and X30 bus services are part of Expressway, a commercial branch of Bus Éireann. Expressway services receive no State subvention, and decisions regarding service enhancements are based on commercial viability. The National Transport Authority is responsible for the licensing of public bus passenger services under the provisions of the Public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: This is a huge issue. One couple, who divide their time between Britain and Ireland, contacted me. They have been using the bus service to the airport approximately once a month over the last three years and not once has the bus come on time. It is consistently late, anything from 30 minutes to an hour. We are not talking about five or ten minutes, nobody would mind that. We know that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome that the Minister agreed to my earlier question that he would raise with the National Transport Authority and Bus Éireann the possibility of introducing early morning and late afternoon direct services between Cavan, Virginia and Whitegate and Dublin. That would ease a lot of the problems in relation to the disappointment so many commuters have on an ongoing basis in not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I want to raise route 336 with the Minister. A lady was in contact with me who has to travel from Kilmihil to Ennis Monday to Friday for her further and higher education course. It is 29.8 km and it costs her €81 per week, which is not sustainable for anyone doing a course. I also want to point to route 343. It has been split into two routes, 330 and 343. This is leading to people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: To Deputy Tully, the uncertainty of such a bus, particularly going to the airport where people might be nervous, is unacceptable. They are told to go earlier but the airport times have lengthened in recent years. That imposes a cost and burden on the consumer, so we need greater certainty. The same applies to the questions put by Deputies Smith and Wynne. Bus Éireann is working...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his reply. I must say I am disappointed that the performance review does not recommend some changes to the Dublin-Cavan route. What I am talking about, in particular, is the need to introduce, in the morning time leaving Cavan, direct services from Cavan, through Virginia, Whitegate, which is on the Cavan-Meath border, then to Dublin. Similarly, in the late...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I accept what the Deputy is saying. I happen to be meeting with Bus Éireann in the coming days and I will raise directly with its representatives this issue the Deputy has raised. I will make a couple of points. One issue we have is we have seen real success, particularly in the last two years, in public transport numbers. Last year they went up 23% nationally and this year, 12%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The point I want to make is there are people getting on the buses that are bound for Cavan who are not travelling to County Cavan. They are getting off between Dublin and Cavan. When the buses arrive to either Virginia or Cavan town, those buses are not full. Cavan people quite understandably say to me - they would say it to Bus Éireann workers and others - that they were left behind....