Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Much of what Deputy Wallace said is right. We are bad performers and we have missed our targets. We do not have a record about which we could hold our heads high. Public transport is a contributor to that. There is no point in denying it. We are making large strides, particularly in the bus area but also elsewhere, with ambitious and renewed targets to remedy the situation of which we cannot be proud. The NTA has published, as part of the overall BusConnects project, its proposals for transitioning the bus fleet in Dublin to low carbon emissions. It intends to seek funding from the green public transport funds for the incremental additional cost of buying environmentally friendly vehicles and envisages that similar vehicles will be purchased for use in the regional cities of Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.

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