Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a number of questions on specific routes. There are issues that come up regularly in my own area.

I raised the 105X service with Mr. Kent before. It is very popular. There is a demand from the community for increased frequency. It largely runs at peak hours and is an express direct route from Ratoath into the city. I raise the 109A to DCU regularly with Bus Éireann and the NTA. I also raise direct routes from Ashbourne or Ratoath to the M3 parkway linking bus and rail. How do those decisions get made? Is it Bus Éireann working with the NTA? Does the NTA itself design routes? People are frustrated these services do not exist, or not in the way people would like.

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