Mr. John Murphy:

It took Covid to increase the number of screens on vehicles outside the Dublin Bus fleet, including Go-Ahead and Aircoach vehicles. Mr. Millane raised the matter of where we will stop on this. Will we be driving armoured cars as public transport vehicles for security reasons? There has to be some interaction between passengers and drivers. Most interactions are positive and good. As Mr. Kane said, Dublin is probably one of the few cities, if not the only city, where people normally thank the bus driver as they get off, which is great. We want to encourage that positivity.

However, we need to look across the whole network. We have been told anecdotally for a number of years that the NTA is trying to have centralised complaints areas. Dublin Bus deals with complaints about its service, as do Bus Éireann, Irish Rail and Luas. If it is moving to that model, which makes sense, surely that model can include surveillance, reaction to antisocial behaviour and policing.