Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Senator. I was involved in the opening of that bus corridor back in the day. It transformed public transport at a relatively low cost and with significant benefit to the people of Dublin. I think BusConnects will be the same. The legislation contains largely technical provisions. The NTA had some concerns about the definitions of carriageway and how it could get flexibility for putting in alternative parking or other arrangements. This is largely technical, to give it the powers to be flexible in how it integrates with existing development plans and to allow it to go to An Bord Pleanála with legal certainty about a variety of issues which will help with planning permission. We have to get our BusConnects project into the planning system and this legislation will help that.