Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We need to look at that. As I said earlier, we have carried out two years of consultation. In my mind, there is broad political support for the BusConnects network.

In terms of what we need to do, I would look to accelerate that in order to get it into planning this year rather than next. That is one of the ways we could accelerate it. That will involve pushing all of the levers flat out to get things done. The programme will still have to go through planning and construction. During Covid, Cork rearranged a lot of streets because of the immediate crisis. We should consider that on an interim basis while we are waiting for the full BusConnects infrastructure to be rolled out. Cork's city and county councils should consider what interim measures can be put in place, similar to what happened during Covid, to implement some of the measures of BusConnects while we are waiting for it to get through the full planning system.

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