Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his reply. I also ask that there be a better level of co-ordination and co-operation between the road and rail services in order to ensure that commuters are transported from point A to point B in the most efficient and effective manner. I ask the Minister to be conscious of the need to ensure that passengers arrive on time. It should not be necessary for people to get up at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. in order to get to a destination when their journey should only take one quarter of the time. In that regard, I ask for better management of the services available, whether they be road or rail. The services need to be co-ordinated in an effective and efficient manner to allow people to get to their destination in a shorter timeframe, which can be done. We must try to eliminate instances of trains stopping on the line which results in all of the passengers not getting to work on time. We must reduce the levels of conflagration caused by multitudes of traffic converging on the roads at a particular point, to which the Minister referred earlier.

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