Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I am glad to get the opportunity to speak. We have more public transport at the present time. There is a service from Kenmare through to Kilgarvan to Killarney that is great, but maybe a medium-sized bus would suffice rather than the large bus it has. Maybe we could get more bus stops. We need more bus stops because it is not much good to have a bus passing by when people are waiting by the side of road who cannot be picked up because they are too far away from the bus stops we have. The local authority needs to combine with and assist the Department of Transport to provide these bus stops.

Places like Clonkeen are having difficulty getting access to public transport.

I wish to raise another issue. In Killarney, the train station is on one side of the railway platform. The bus station is on the other side of the rail track. We looked for a connecting bridge so that people would not have to go out on the street and down by the Great Southern Killarney with bags and everything, but we were told there was no funding for that. I ask the Minister to look at this again.

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