Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I appreciate that but time is of the essence here and I have a number of other questions to ask.

With regard to the 270 bus route from Kenmare to Killarney, which is a great service, have the witnesses any notion in the world of developing proper bus stops with signs where the bus can pull in to set down or pick up people. We do not have that along the route. Some bus drivers will not stop and the bus goes whistling by. The bus is grand but it is no good if you cannot get on it or off it. It happened that a person, a young girl, was taken four miles down the road beyond where she wanted to get off. Her mother had to follow the bus down to the middle of the wood, where the driver found a place where he thought he could stop. Ninety-nine percent of drivers are fine but there will always be one who says he or she cannot stop in such a place because it is not safe. I want that rectified. Proper stops with signs where the buses can pull in must be developed.

I have another issue. There is a bus that goes from Tralee to Killarney every hour and another that goes in the other direction. Therefore, there is a bus landing in Farranfore every half hour. The buses park in a busy chemist’s yard. There are also the vehicles of those bringing people to the buses and those waiting to collect people. The man’s yard is full all day with people waiting. Down the road, 50 yd away, is the railway station. It has a shelter and everything else but, for some reason or other, the buses will not or cannot go into the railway yard, where everyone else can go. I ask that the traffic and bus stop be removed from the middle of Farranfore village. What is happening is holding up the traffic.