Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not talking about saturation; I am saying it was because there were too many.

Let me address the Dublin-Clonmel situation. In Clonmel, to which the Deputy referred, the NTA determined that no action was needed at the minute except for changes to the rural transport timetable to facilitate connectivity to commercial services. That service calls at more towns and villages than Expressway. According to the NTA, a detailed assessment is carried out in a separate report of the Dublin-Clonmel situation because the conclusion of that report is that there are sufficient services offered by Kavanagh's route 717 which operates 98 services per week from Clonmel to Dublin via Kilkenny. The NTA states that some amendments will be required for local links service 817 C serving Carrick-on-Suir to Grangemockler to maintain the public service obligations, PSO, and connect to JJ Kavanagh's 717 service. One could not possibly say that Clonmel is in some way isolated as a result of those cuts. It is not.

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