Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Taoiseach about the reliability and provision of public bus transport services in some areas. On Monday night at 1 a.m., an Expressway service bus left Sligo for Dublin Airport. It is supposed to stop in Boyle, just off the N4, at 1.35 a.m. but it did not and just drove straight past, leaving six people sitting with their bags and no bus. This is happening more often around the country than we would like. It is certainly not the first time I have brought up difficulties of this nature with the Expressway service. We need investment in that service to ensure that people who go to use it are brought where they need to go.

With regard to Sligo town, there is an area in the West Ward of the town around Magheraboy and Merville that had a bus service up until the late 1990s. That service was taken away and the people of the area have been campaigning for years to have another put in place. They have received vague promises that something will be done before the end of the year. Will the Taoiseach's office intervene to ensure the promise we were given that public transport would be prioritised will be delivered upon?

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