Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will be able to make this in just under one minute.

In his principles of public transport, the Minister talks about encouraging the use of buses. How do we also protect public delivery of and public accountability regarding public services, particularly given that, for example, in recent trade agreements we have protected intercity routes but we have not explicitly protected other areas of our public transport and reserved them for public delivery? That is an matter to consider.

The Minister mentioned that the bus service loses money. I say that it costs money; it is not a matter of losing money.