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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Apologies have been received from the Cathaoirleach, Deputy Naughten. Members participating in the meeting remotely are required to do so from within the Leinster House complex only. I ask members and witnesses to please turn off their mobile phones or ensure that they are on silent mode. Members of the committee participating remotely are asked to use the raise-hand function on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Mr. Seamus Boland: On behalf of the board of Irish Rural Link, IRL, I thank the committee and the Cathaoirleach for the invitation to the meeting, which we were glad to accept. I wish to introduce Ms Miriam McKenna, who is a member of our board and manager and director of the Flexibus programme. I also introduce Mr. Alan Kerry, who is also a member of the Irish Rural Link board. He also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Ms Anne Graham: I thank the committee for its invitation. I understand it wishes to focus on the topic of Local Link services. To assist me in dealing with its subsequent questions, I am joined by Mr. Tim Gaston, director of public transport services, and Ms Bláthín McElligott, rural transport manager with the authority. Before dealing with the specific areas of focus, I wish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Mr. Seamus Boland: We agree 100% with the Senator on the PR and the need to bring services to the public's attention. In a sense, Local Link, mainly through the campaign - we were talking about Marty Morrissey at one stage - has done that a great deal. However, as Mr. Gaston rightly says, there are some issues. They are almost issues of success. The members of Irish Rural Link would say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the delegations for their submissions. My first two questions are for the NTA representatives. I ask them to give us figures on the subvention to Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Local Link, respectively. I also ask them to provide the expenditure per capitaof the population. We know from experience that as frequency is increased, there will be more passengers. That is obvious...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the witnesses for attending today. With the NTA present I am tempted to start talking about Bus Connects but I will stick to the brief. Having listened to other members raising issues I agree with Senator Garvey that the issue of bus shelters seems to be a very tortuous process. It can be extremely slow. It is not unlike a number of other issues in this regard, where multiple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Mr. Tim Gaston: I will take that question. There is both funding and plans. However, like bus poles, we are coming from place where there are not town services in all towns that we would want to have town services in. We have had successful town services for quite some considerable time in Sligo, Athlone, Drogheda and places like that. We are just about to launch a new service in Carlow,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Mark Wall: I welcome our guests today. It is good to see them again. It is only a week since we last met with some of them. I want to start by acknowledging Mr. Kerry. As he mentioned in his introduction, he is responsible for Kildare and south Dublin. I have daily and weekly briefings with him on various issues. I want to put on the record, as I did last Wednesday when I spoke at the fares...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I acknowledge the huge positivity that has been in the room this morning. There are, of course, teething issues and there are places we want to improve. There is a natural impatience among public representatives who want these services rolled out as soon as possible to give maximum benefit but there is no doubting there has been a sea change in the provision of rural public transport. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Róisín Garvey: To go back to the subject of bus poles, I hear what Mr. Gaston is saying, namely that capacity seems to be a huge issue. Has the Minister been asked for additional funding to get people on the ground? The local authorities are telling me they have new active travel staff but that none of their jobs requires them to have anything to do with bus stops. They are busy working on walking and...