Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

I had asked about cancelled and partially cancelled buses on the 33, 33A and 33X routes but did not get a response to that correspondence. I have gone back in to ask for a response. In my research, I found a site, buscancellationsdublin.eu. Helpfully, the site gave me a list of all the cancelled and partially cancelled services since January. In the past two months, 49 buses have been cancelled on the 33 route and 133 buses have been cancelled on the 33A route. For a route that does not have that many services, that level of cancellation is intolerable. I have spoken to children in Loughshinny who get the bus to and from school and who have waited at bus stops for 90 minutes because buses have been cancelled. Those children are trying to use their phones to see if the app has updated to tell them if the bus is ever going to come or not, or whether it has been cancelled or not. When I ask parliamentary questions on the issue, I do not get a satisfactory response. Can we do something about the cancelled buses? Some of them are probably operated by Go-Ahead Ireland. What can be done to improve the service?