Maria Byrne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the issue of BusConnects. Limerick is due to launch its BusConnects network shortly. There is an industrial estate in Annacotty, Limerick, where more than 2,000 people work. Lacking foresight, Bus Éireann will not run a bus out to the Annacotty Business Park. I have spoken to businesses there and have met them. Some of them even ask people when they apply for a job whether they have a car or a mode of transport of getting there because it is quite a distance - more than 2.5 km - from the next bus stop to the business park. Unfortunately, they have had people take up jobs who then fall by the wayside because in the winter time, they do not make it to work on time. I have written to them myself. I would like the support of the Leader’s office in highlighting the fact that it is short-sighted of BusConnects not to connect the Annacotty Business Park to the rest of Limerick.