Dennis Leonard
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When you get older, when you get infirm, if you have a disability, I've talked to people in my area whose eyesight is going, they can't drive anymore.
They get free travel at 66, what are they meant to get on?
You know what I mean?
And rural people in particular are disadvantaged here.
The Western Rail Corridor, Mullingard, all these are delayed far beyond the time they should have been put in.
And I mean, all this has been going on for weeks about RTE presenters and things like that.
I mean, they are trying to get the House in order and everything else is
When is Irish Rail going to get their house in order with, you know, proper public transport that's available to people?
And also the sheer waste of public money that has gone on for so many years in so many different agencies.
There has to be accountability.
All the tribunals we had about that years ago, they ended up just with a slap on the wrist.
There has to be really people being fully held accountable when they do something.
I know systems can fail and everything else, but there's no system that should allow, that shouldn't allow for forward planning, for proper sustainable planning, for spending every single tax euro in the appropriate way that will put services in people's neighbourhoods and communities.
Yeah, Karen, I think your previous caller there just started drifting towards what I was on about earlier.
I think your subject started drifting away from the basic subject, which was about the 50 million loss.
And you could end up with 20 people on the line complaining about their different railway situations.
I mean, this is basically about 50 million down the Swanee.
And my question is, who will be held responsible and how many people will be fired?