John Gibbons
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873 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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So they're only on the bus, Matt.
They don't matter.
That that's the bot that's what the government is saying to the people here.
They simply don't matter.
And if it was the case that we could say for sure that this money was going to mean more buses, more trains, I you know, I I would
You know, have have
chargers.
I mean it's outrageous incompetence.
So so the transition that we want to see happening towards public transport and I would say, Matt, in other European countries, we've seen a situation where uh they have actually, in some cases, completely phased out charges or reduced them to minimal for public transport.
And the reason for that is that the the costs imposed on a city like Dublin uh for congestion runs into
hundreds of millions a year uh is in congestion costs, in lost productivity, in absenteeism, and of course in fuel that is simply being smoked up as people are sitting in traffic jams in the M fifty.
Now it appears that the current government thinks that's absolutely fine.
And in fact if somebody is sitting at home today and they have a car on the front drive and the bus is down there, what the government is saying, Do mind the bus, sure maybe you take the car, get in the queue
It's
And so it should be, Matt.
But the issue really is that we need a vastly better public transport system.
And I don't think you and I are going to argue about this.
Dublin is the only city, capital city in Europe that has no metro system whatsoever.
The Dart, uh bless it, uh is there since nineteen.
What about the
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