Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Bus Éireann has asked private providers to make its vehicles smaller because the road carriageways have narrowed due to the law stating we cannot cut the hedgerows. Now we are driving small vehicles, and sometimes two vehicles when one would do, to collect children. We saw that free bus tickets were handed out. The reason most of the children who want to get on the bus with their concessionary passes cannot do so is that Bus Éireann stated that because the hedging on the road carriageways cannot be cut, it cannot put on a bigger bus. The likes of a milk lorry, an ambulance or any other bus can go on these carriageways. This is actually contradicting what we are trying to do.

Let us get real here. Deputy Leddin was only on the county council for a short time. There are 40 county councillors on Limerick City and County Council – 21 in the city and 19 in the county. I would say they would be fairly disappointed that he is trying to give extra powers to An Bord Pleanála when last week’s debate-----

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