Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development
Rural Transport Policy: National Transport Authority
12:00 pm
Maura Hopkins (Fine Gael)
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Okay. I would also like to emphasise the important work which Local Link services do. For example, there is a service in Tulsk which supports a day centre and a rural school. It also integrates locals with towns. We obviously need to see more of that, but it is a very good example of trying to be efficient and trying to link as many people as possible to the places to which they need to go. That was my one concern around that tendering process. I had a sense that people were waiting to see how the tendering process progresses before further routes were introduced. I really just wanted clarification on that.