Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There have been meetings day after day in recent weeks. First, the discussion document was issued in June and the consultation process report was issued in July. That is what the meetings are about. All Deputy Collins has to do is look back through the local newspapers in Dublin and see the notices of the public consultation that has been happening. The purpose of the project is to improve the public bus service that people relied on for 136 million journeys last year and to make it better and more efficient and to make more people value the fact that they can get on and off a bus in the quickest time to get to and from work or wherever they are going. The input from Deputy Collins is entirely valuable and wanted and that is why we are carrying out a public consultation process. The end game may be nowhere close to the beginning, but that is why our input is relied upon and is needed.

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