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- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
Joe Flaherty: If I still have time, I will come back to the Local Development Companies Network representatives. Irish Rural Link is doing fantastic work and we can see its growth. I visited Galway a couple of weekends ago and I could not believe it. Even in Longford, I see huge progress. People ring now and say they want more buses, which is great. We are coming to that time of year when people call...
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
Joe Flaherty: During the lifetime of the previous Government, we did a piece of work on where we would go with school transport, but I have a sense we did not engage with a sufficient number of stakeholders when that was being done.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
Joe Flaherty: For example, if a Local Link route was tweaked by ten minutes, it could resolve an issue and get children to school on time rather than them being ten minutes late. Small tweaks such as that can really make a huge change for us.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
Joe Flaherty: Deputy Aird was here.
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
Joe Flaherty: Sorry, Chair, just before they come in-----
- Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Engagement on Matters Relating to Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)
Joe Flaherty: Sorry, Chair.