Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When it comes to school transport and the review, we need to over-provide. This whole eligible versus concessionary thing has to go, within reason. It has to go for so many reasons, including for climate action because we need to get cars off the road. Traffic is clogging up our towns and villages. The busiest time, which people try to avoid, is during school times when the traffic is delayed. Parents are having to spend hours on hours in cars when they should not have to. Then of course, we need to do it for the students. This is my message here today: let us over-provide, within reason. If someone wants to send their kid from Clonakilty to Cork that is beyond the realms but within reason, let us over-provide.

The three black spots in west Cork at the moment are Baltimore to Skibbereen, Ardfield to Rosscarbery and Ballinhassig to Kinsale. We need to take note of that and get them sorted.

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