John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No but I can make the point I want to make. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for even allowing me in. I raised a Topical Issue late last night in the Dáil. It was on the introduction of the S8 and the S6, and the shortfall in those schedules.

They replaced the 75 and 175 and in doing so seriously discommoded commuters on both sections of those routes because there was a direct connection to UCD on the 175, which is gone, and there was a direct connection to IADT on the 75, which is gone. The detail of it is in the Topical Issue and there was a response from the Minister which was obviously informed by the NTA. For the first time, I did an online petition specifically on the breaking of that connection, not the scrapping. I can see the benefits in the connections, but the NTA should be aware of the resistance. Some people have given up already and have decided to take the car because it is just too inconvenient.

On the communications, the public need education on the metro-style map. Not everybody is comfortable with those maps. Some 3,500 people signed that petition. There is a really short corridor of interest. I ask the NTA to look at that. I did flag it. There has been a long time-----