Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

I am extremely disappointment with that answer. It is the same script that the communities that have been affected by these bus cuts have heard since the swingeing cuts in the provision of bus services across the city have been ripping through the bus service.

The Minister should meet the people affected. It is astonishing that we get this stuff, which we got from the previous Government, about the Minister having no operational control. As I understand it, and the Minister may correct me if I am wrong, he must sign off on any route changes. It would be incredible if he did not have to sign off.

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