Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the issue of public transport for the Cavan-Monaghan area and specifically the Bus Éireann Expressway route No. 30 that takes people from Donegal, through Cavan and on to Dublin. Over the past weeks it has been aired very robustly on the Northern Sound airwaves how people are being let down entirely by this service. One can imagine that in a constituency like mine we very much depend on this critical part our public transport. We depend on it for the airport and we depend on it for hospital appointments. I have anecdotal experience from people living in the area of where the bus either failed to turn up or turned up too late so that people had to ring to make other arrangements to get the airport or they were going to miss their flights.

Will the Tánaiste make an intervention with Bus Éireann to see what can be done so that we can have a reliable form of transport that people can depend on?

I also ask that it reopen the bus station in Cavan town. It is disgraceful that it remains closed this far on from Covid.

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