Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Will you come back to me on the cost of those two Kilminchy ones, please? Thank you. I also have a question about the bus routes out of Portlaoise. I do not want to complain too much because we are well served and I use it an odd time myself. The bus to the airport - the green bus - is on the hour and it is great. It is a 24-hour service. There is one problem with it. Does the NTA get a record of how many times it breaks down? That is the problem with the green bus. It is on the hour. People will say it goes into every town and village on the way up to Dublin. You put up with that because it is on the hour and it gets you there. If you arrive at the airport at 2 a.m. or 2.10 a.m., you just have to wait for the next one to come. You never have to wait more than a quarter of an hour for one, and down you come. However, I regularly pass them broken down on the motorway.

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