Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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I would like to ask a supplementary question about the budget discussions that will be going on. If I were booking a bus to matches or for an event, and the Minister was a schoolteacher so she is familiar, I would book it months in advance, ordinarily. Maybe it is just the optimist in me, but I hope there will be good news in the budget next week about this. Can we take an optimistic approach to it and say to Bus Éireann now to plan for a best-case scenario, to start looking at those routes, booking those buses, and getting those bus drivers? A week is a long time in this kind of scenario. I know it would give reassurance to people if they felt that heaven and earth were being moved, with the good news to come next week, I hope. If we did that, we would be ready and there would be a week to our advantage.