Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

BusConnects is going ahead. Let there be no doubt about that. The Senator should be aware that a consultation process is going on. Many people, including Ministers, are not terribly comfortable with what is happening in their constituencies, which is inevitable in a project of this sort. I have said to my colleagues, I have even said it at the Cabinet meeting, and I say it openly here, that it is open to them to go to the public consultations and I hope they will. They can suggest improvements to some quite radical steps which are being taken in their area, which are not universally popular. It will be difficult in certain circumstances for a project of this sort to go ahead and there will be resistance in certain places, but for the greater good BusConnects will go ahead. It will reduce the commuting times for getting people to work and it will hopefully get more people not just into buses but also on their bicycles. In the meantime, the public consultation on BusConnects is going ahead on both the network and on the corridors and there will be continuous consultations. We will not have the last ones-----