Bus Services
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-01
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Mark Ward (SF), Dublin Mid-West

The Minister is right again. The detour has stopped. I myself met with Dublin Bus during the week. One of the issues we have is that there is often an incident and then it is followed by another incident and then it ends in a pattern and the behaviour becomes commonplace. I wonder if a more cross-departmental approach is possible whereby we could nip this in the bud a lot earlier. I welcome that the community safety forum, through our councillor, William Carey, called in the gardaí to meet them. That was the start of the engagement there. Before that happens, however, Dublin Bus should have a mechanism whereby it can engage itself with the Garda, youth outreach workers and local schools on an educational basis. We could have a holistic approach to this. As I said, the behaviour of a small few individuals in one area is having a big impact on the majority of the decent residents there. If we could nip this in the bud earlier and get these people around the table like a task force, I think that would abruptly make a big difference and we could get the buses to stop detouring a lot more quickly than they have been.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-01