Public Transport
Seanad Éireann — 2026-03-04
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Gareth Scahill (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I thank the Minister of State for his response. I am glad to acknowledge Local Link because I know it is within his remit. It is great to see the 43% increase Local Link will be receiving to support its roll out of the services. Sometimes, we seem to overcomplicate these things. Local Link and the taxi services are able to do this. There are white-box solutions out there for just about everything at the moment that are very easily implemented, adapted and which are able to do this. We spoke about volunteering last week when the Minister of State was in the Chamber last. We know all our local GAA and soccer clubs are using these remote terminals now to process transactions for their local lottos when they are out and about. When it is as simple as that, it is very hard to understand how it takes three to four years to implement a solution like this on our main bus system when all the other services have done it. It is something I hope we can speed up the solution on.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-04