Public Transport Dail Éireann — 2026-03-18 ============================================================ Darragh O'Brien (FF), Dublin Fingal East I will chase up the 199 route. I do not have an update on it as it was not part of the question. The Deputy will understand that. I welcome feedback from all Deputies, Government or Opposition, in relation to public transport. We have made significant advances over the last five years. Public transport journey numbers bear out that people are responding to it. Of course, we are not going to resolve issues in the course of one year, but we are investing more in public transport than we have ever done before. There is very significant infrastructure investment and fleet investment too. The service elements, particularly around no-shows and reliability of service, are incredibly frustrating to passengers. What our bus operators need to understand is that these are just passengers, but customers. The customer has to be at the centre of everything we do. The automatic vehicle location system will help greatly in that regard. That will be rolled out during this year and early next year. It will provide real-time data and an upgrade of the app. When a bus is cancelled or delayed, if people know that, they can arrange alternatives. It is where a bus still shows on an app as ag teacht when it is not, that is a real problem for people. The Deputy might give me the details specifically around the L2 service because the information that I have and that I prepared for in advance of this answer is contrary to what she said. Based on what I have been told, I have no reason to disbelieve that there have been improvements over the period since these matters were raised. However, the Deputy has given me two specific dates on which there were problems. If there are more, we need to know about it. I ask the Deputy to please feed any such information into me and the Department and I will take the matters up directly with the NTA and revert to her. I do not have an update on the 199 route, which is the Glendalough and Bray route. I will get an update for the Deputy and come back to her. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2026-03-18/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:45+00:00 Sitting date: 2026-03-18