Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will enter into discussions with local authorities regarding policy in relation to introducing quality bus corridors and their locations, operating times and days with a view to ensuring some uniformity of approach; if he will ensure that public consultation will take place before they are introduced. [22290/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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In the Greater Dublin Area, the Quality Bus Network Project Office of Dublin City Council works to ensure that there is a uniform approach to the design standards and specifications of the quality bus network among the local authorities in the Greater Dublin Area. The design and specification for each scheme is integrated to take account of the most appropriate bus priority measures for the route in question, the concerns of residential and business communities along the proposed route, the needs of all road users, including cyclists and pedestrians and the potential for road safety improvements.

The local authorities in Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway city regions are also involved in the provision of bus priority measures in their areas. The location of such measures as well as operational issues are addressed at the planning and design stages by the local authorities concerned, in the context of local development or transportation plans, such as the Cork Area Strategic Plan (CASP). Public consultations are undertaken as a matter of course by the sponsoring agencies during the design and planning of all bus priority measures.