Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The National Transport Authority, NTA's roll-out of BusConnects has been, to be blunt, a bit of a mess. In my constituency, residents are losing the services they like without any clarity as to when the improved infrastructure to make the bus service run effectively will be in place. The 58 is due to come once an hour, which is not sufficient. The number 60 comes once an hour, leaving people without effective public transport. I will be raising this directly with the Minister for Transport, but I want assurances that Government will take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the NTA delivers effective public transport including, if necessary, reviewing the structure of the NTA itself if it is failing to deliver effective public transport.

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