Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a positive in itself that the NTA is committed to the service. I ask that any statutory phases the authority needs to go through would continue. Maybe the bus service is not ready to roll out in the coming months but I ask that the NTA keep pushing on with those important stages in advance of that. I ask, in particular, that Clarecastle be looked at because it and Ennis are almost one and the same town. There is now only a roundabout separating them. They have different identities but in terms of how they have developed, they are joined at the hip. The bus service needs to incorporate Clarecastle as well.