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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. He will get a chance to come back in.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: -----but we certainly need the metro.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (21 Mar 2024)

Martin Kenny: We will agree to disagree on that. A rail link to Dublin Airport from the city centre is something we should put in place because it can happen with speed and haste, whereas we have waited 20 years for the metro and nothing has happened. Even if we started it tomorrow, it would be at least another ten years before we would see it in place. That is an issue we can come back to. Another...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: First, regarding the metro, I have to be careful. I do not intervene directly in the planning system or try to change planning conditions, which some people were looking for me to do when it came to Dublin Airport. They were saying to ignore An Bord Pleanála and thrash its conditions. We cannot do that. As Minister for Transport, I can say a decision will be made on the metro. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (21 Mar 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Bus Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the cancellation of a service (details supplied) from Galway to Dublin Airport; if he is considering steps to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13234/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I raise the cancellation of the Aircoach from Galway to Dublin Airport. This has caused huge concern across Galway. Will the Minister outline the steps he is taking to address this matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I would like to reassure the Deputy that both my Department and the National Transport Authority, NTA, are aware of Aircoach’s decision to withdraw its 706 Galway to Dublin Airport service from 8 April. While the majority of public transport in Ireland is Exchequer-funded through the PSO programme, a critical part of the national public transport system is comprised of bus services...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. The context to all of this is that in September 2020, Bus Éireann announced that the 20X20 route between Galway and Dublin was to be discontinued as and from July 2021. At that time, the NTA granted a licence for the Aircoach 706 706X commercial service, which has then being running since July 2021 with ten departures each way, seven days a week. At...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: The reality is that there are significant services from Galway to Dublin Airport, such as the Citylink services of which the Deputy will be aware.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: But not through County Galway.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: They are very significant in number and, therefore, we are not going to see that connectivity completely disappear. The Deputy is right. The Aircoach service was there replacing that Bus Éireann services and in both instances the demand was not there. It is a commercial decision. If Aircoach was seeing large passenger numbers, it would obviously not be stopping the route. I expect...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: There is no harm in that but we need to be looking at rural Ireland as well and its connectivity. I live in Galway city and can jump on a Citylink or a GoBus any day of the week, almost any hour, but we also need to look at services for rural areas. We cannot have a situation where this Government is once again forgetting about rural Ireland and public transport links for rural Ireland. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: First, with regard to rural public transport services, there has never, in the history of the State, been a Government that has been so committed to expanding rural bus and rural public transport services. In the past two years, every week we have introduced a new or enhanced rural public transport service and we have seen-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: This is cancelled.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: -----a spectacular increase in demand for rural public transport services. I will happily compare our record in that regard with any other country or any other time in Irish history where there has been such an expansion of rural public transport services.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: But this is cancelled.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Regarding the airport service, we will, as I said, carry out an assessment, as the Deputy said, with GoBus and Citylink. It will be very extensive. We are investing to improve Irish Rail services connectivity between Galway and Dublin-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: Not to Dublin Airport.

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