Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a question on this issue, as Question No. 78 is on this specific route as well.

These issues have beengoing on for years. A parliamentary question response from the NTA over a year ago stated that a revised timetable for routes 109 and 109X with capacity improvements was scheduled to go live on 24 September 2023 and that it continues to monitor passage usage levels, and yet the Minister is saying now something else has to go live in another few weeks' time. Obviously, whatever they did was not sufficient at the time. What we have are people being left standing at bus stops, sometimes for hours and often in the rain. Often elderly people come from hospital appointments, especially in the James Connolly hospital. It is totally unfair. We need additional routes.

I agree with Deputy Brendan Smith in asking the Minister to consider having routes that go directly from Dublin to the county of Cavan and have separate routes to go to Meath and service the town of Kells, in particular. That would solve the problem.

This is ongoing, as I said, for too long, and it needs to be addressed.

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