Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

I should clarify, in relation to the area that we are talking about, that there is the 33 bus service. As the witnesses know, however, it does not link up with the train times. Given it is on a rural and busy road, the entrance to the train station has regular accidents. Walking or taking other forms of active travel to the 33 bus service is not realistic, particularly coming from the Rush side. It very dark coming from Lusk side, but particularly from the Rush side. To encourage people to take public transport, it is important to have a safe accessible route to the train station and safe accessible public transport. I would appreciate if that was possible.

On school transport, there are several rural villages in my constituency. One of them is Ballyboughal. We have had persistent emails about the school transport there. Many people cannot get access to it because they go to a school in Lusk rather than Swords, and the distance to Lusk is slightly longer. The reason they go there is that they either cannot get into Swords or do not want to go to a Catholic school in Swords. They want to go to the Educate Together school in Lusk. We have had serious issues in trying to get school transport for them. I have had repeated complaints about the pick-up location being extremely unsafe. Like some of my colleagues, I have difficulty getting information. The safety of the bus stop is a serious concern for me.