Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)
I have one last question for the NTA. One of the challenges the NTA has put down is public acceptance and buy-in to change. On a constituency level, it just feels like more public engagement is required when it comes to the welcome changes we are making to our bus routes via BusConnects and things like that. I cannot tell you the amount of time my office spends explaining the changes in bus routes to individual constituents who contact us, explaining that a route used to be called a number and now it is a letter but it actually goes to the same places, or almost the same places, and exactly where it stops. Is it a resource issue? A lot of this information is online. Maybe it feels like sometimes older people are being left out. I would suggest maybe a leaflet drop in an area where a route is changing or even individual staff members having more public meetings and public engagement. It would really help people. It would alleviate the fear of change that sometimes can happen when these really positive changes are coming through. Does the NTA need more resources for that?
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