Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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Bus Éireann's position in any other realm would be ageist and discriminatory, and I am so surprised Ms McNally is continuing with this line even though there is international evidence contrary to the excuse Bus Éireann is giving to the Department. That is why we do not have proactive people. The officials do not seem to be able to exercise their own brains. They accept what they are told, contrary to the evidence for what they are doing. One hand in the Department of Transport does not know what the other hand is doing. That was not an answer. It was trying to justify the Department’s own inaction. We are without school buses because we do not have drivers, and that is why it is so ridiculous to tell me the same driver cannot take the children to school but can collect them from the school and bring them to Dublin on a school tour. I ask Ms McNally to please not let herself down and to use her brain. This is ridiculous stuff and the only people suffering are parents, who are under huge pressure to work to meet the cost of living, most of it inflicted by the Government, and Government TDs come to these committee meetings-----