Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. I welcome the witnesses and thank them for coming back in today because there are a lot of issues. In tandem with the questions I raised two weeks ago, I have a new one regarding Iron Mills, which is on the 270 route from Kenmare through Kilgarvan to Killarney. There is a request, which I will send on to Bus Éireann, for a bus stop at Iron Mills to serve the people of Crosstown, Gortacoosh, Glenfesk and that entire area. It is only my suggestion that the bus could drive into the old N22, where there is a turnoff lane and everything. It would be much safer to go in there. There is even room to turn the bus, if it wanted to come back out again, or it could continue on the old road and come out just before the railway crossing, which the witnesses know well, going into Killarney. That is an option. I ask Bus Éireann to consider that proposal because there is a massive number of houses in that vicinity, in areas such as Crosstown, Artigallivan and Headfort. People could park, turn and wait there for the bus or whatever. That is a new request I have.

It may be too soon to ask Mr. Kent about the Headfort school run that Bus Éireann was to consider. That school has ten children now. It just received that number in the last days of September, but we are being told we have to wait another year. There is no need to wait another year. These children are going to school and a bus would facilitate the parents who have to work and everything else. It could drive around that way, pick children up and take them to one of those schools. Does Bus Éireann have any answer to that yet?