Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is an element of engaging with local authorities. Wherever the bus terminus is, or at the end of route, the area should be well lit, clean and not subject to its own antisocial behaviour. I do not know if this is still the case but such areas were historically a little remote. Sometimes, there is not a lot of passive surveillance, whereas there is in other areas. A driver parked up for 20 minutes or half an hour will feel safer in some places than others. We are all conscious of the fact that even though the cash-robbing element of bus behaviour, I presume, does not happen at all - the bus has a big steel box and hardly anyone is using cash anyway - there is still a lot of other bad behaviour.

It is important to make the point that more than 500,000 people in the Irish workforce were not born on this island. Where would we be without all those people in the public transport system, the health system, the education system, and hospitality and retail? They deserve to be able to live and work in an environment where they feel as safe as everybody else. Does Deputy Kenny wish to add anything?