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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)

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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: 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. 12 o’clock 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...

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....

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

Pauline Tully: I have a question on this issue, as Question No. 78 is on this specific route as well. These issues have beengoing on for years. A parliamentary question response from the NTA over a year ago stated that a revised timetable for routes 109 and 109X with capacity improvements was scheduled to go live on 24 September 2023 and that it continues to monitor passage usage levels, and yet the...

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

Alan Farrell: My question in relation to Question No. 54 is to do with the process that the NTA engages in response to overcrowding on service provision which is an ongoing issue. They are not responsive enough. I have seen this in my constituency. I have seen this on DCU-bound services from the north east, which would, of course, include counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Meath and even Westmeath, where...

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

Eamon Ryan: In response to the three Deputies, we have mechanisms and encourage and the NTA delivers so-called "enhancements". Where we are finding that there may be a service that is under real pressure and a bus is full, we have the capability of funding and providing for additional buses. That is different to what I heard Deputies Tully and Smith talking about and I take the point. Are we are...

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

Brendan Smith: On this route-----

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

Marian Harkin: No, the Deputy is finished. The Deputy has had his interventions.

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

Brendan Smith: May I make one point?

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

Marian Harkin: I am sorry. Apologies, I cannot.

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

Brendan Smith: Buses are leaving Dublin full before they are to pick up people extra.