Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

I am sorry. I know I sound frustrated, but I feel the stress when I get these emails. It is simply not good enough. There are supposed to be double-decker buses on this service and there are not. It is letting people down. One student had to spend €45 getting an Uber to DCU. It was her first week in college and she could not get on the bus. I got off the train at Dublin's Pearse Station today, where another woman stopped me to say she could not get on the 101 bus this morning. She then had to drive into Balbriggan town and pay €10 for her car to be parked there to get on the bus. This is her first week in a new job; she was doing induction and was late. That is the stress this service causes people. I appreciate it is a 24-hour service. It would be a good service, if we had additional capacity but we just need more. People, including myself, are at our wits' end with the capacity issues.