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

The great advantage of it being a public consultation is that they can get that feedback and get the right route alignment. We were recently talking to people in Ballinasloe about whether new Local Link services being put in were connected to the hospital. It is important to understand the actual need at a local level. In some of the examples developed recently, the use of Local Link services was very interesting. In Leitrim they were incorporated in the first roll-out. We envisage almost a doubling or quadrupling of Local Link services because they have great local knowledge, providing the flexibility to get people to the right place and getting the stops in the right place.