Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Equally now, with more congestion. I know, for example, that in Ranelagh, which does not have a bus lane but has a clearway, the minute that clearway is gone at 10 o'clock in the morning it is full of cars. I know that the 11, which is one of the routes, struggles in the evenings around 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock because there are drivers bringing people Chinese takeaway. I understand it all but it makes it very difficult for the service to negotiate a very narrow strip of roadway when there is parking that is, possibly, legal-ish one side of the road or for certain times of the day but probably not legal at all on the other side but there is parking there because it is 8.30 p.m. on a Friday night.

Does Mr. Hann find that there is a lot of congestion, particularly during the day? I get the idea of discipline and the 24-7 bus lanes but if somebody wants to use the Morehampton Road at 8 o'clock at night and use both lanes rather than one, and there is an awful lot of bus congestion, so be it. I think those areas, towns and villages and strips of road where has a bit of priority in the morning and evening and not much during the rest of the day must make Dublin Bus's timetable reliability quite difficult. Does it?