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

On Connecting Ireland and the Local Link services, this new massive expansion in rural public transport has primarily been delivered by Local Link services. Bus Éireann has had a role too but Local Link has been central. I am glad that hopefully now NTA has agreed contract terms with all the Local Link providers for the next phase of their contract. We have also commissioned a review of the Local Link system. It shows its real strengths such as community, bottom-up knowledge at local level and a whole variety of different services that the offices provide. I have been meeting with some of those Local Link operators and will be sharing the review with them. The next step is how we really enhance, support and modernise our Local Link structure so we can grow further from here, including the likes of all those villages and locations the Deputy mentioned. To get that right we need to think now about the next phase of Local Link.

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