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

This is a huge issue. One couple, who divide their time between Britain and Ireland, contacted me. They have been using the bus service to the airport approximately once a month over the last three years and not once has the bus come on time. It is consistently late, anything from 30 minutes to an hour. We are not talking about five or ten minutes, nobody would mind that. We know that buses can get held up. The last time they went to get the bus it was 50 minutes late and then the driver said he needed to take 30 minutes to have his break. Everyone is deserving of a break but that should be factored into the bus timetable. It should not affect the bus. The bus therefore was almost an hour and a half late. When they contact Bus Éireann they are told to leave lots of time to get to the airport, but how much time do you actually need? It is taking hours of additional time to get there. I hear from holidaymakers who might only use the service once or twice a year. They say the bus has never been on time and they have to leave a couple of hours' additional time to get to the airport to make their flight. It is just not an efficient service and it needs to be addressed.

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