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Pat Kenny

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1737 total appearances

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The Pat Kenny Show
Lebanon & the unfolding humanitarian crisis

Not easily at any rate.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

We're almost at the top of that particular horizontal line.

The Pat Kenny Show
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin

Now, one of the impacts of all of this is if you get a windscreen that's cracked, it has to be repaired.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

We're well up.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

We're at between 130 and 140.

The Pat Kenny Show
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin

Now, time-wise, you'd be pretty sure it might be repaired overnight, but with recruitment of mechanics and all of that, it might not be repaired for a day or two, which means a missing bus.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

Maybe Denmark is slightly ahead of us on that score.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

But when you look at the graph in total, we are the complete outlier because we are the wealthiest almost, but we're also the poorest in terms of infrastructure and all the other things that we want.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

And the question is, with all that wealth, why can't we deliver?

The Pat Kenny Show
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin

Now, talk to me about the fleet and your capacity, because if you do have to take buses out for whatever reason, for mechanical failure or indeed vandalism, it can give rise to ghost buses, the famous ghost buses.

The Pat Kenny Show
Lebanon & the unfolding humanitarian crisis

Now people are literally shell-shocked from what they have been through in Beirut for example and the atrocity that was committed by Israel a week or so ago when they killed what more than 300 people in the center of Beirut we could see that what they had targeted were apartment blocks and

The Pat Kenny Show
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin

Is the current system 15 years old?

The Pat Kenny Show
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin

Is that your own system or is that TFI?

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

I mean, I read from your blog the things that you talk about and what people feel, what might drive them to Melbourne.

The Pat Kenny Show
Lebanon & the unfolding humanitarian crisis

They said they got 100 key Hezbollah.

The Pat Kenny Show
Lebanon & the unfolding humanitarian crisis

That's what they were after.

The Pat Kenny Show
In Ireland, why do we find it so hard to make progress on infrastructure?

The three-hour commute and traffic, the closed GP list, the โ‚ฌ2,200 rent, the 14-month wait for an MRI, the buses that don't come, and we'll be talking to the CEO of Dublin Bus later on in the programme, the trains that don't exist, the schools with no places, the pubs that close before midnight, the โ‚ฌ12 sandwiches.

The Pat Kenny Show
Lebanon & the unfolding humanitarian crisis

They seem to dismiss the fact that 200 people who were not Hezbollah were also killed and many, many more were injured in that bombing.

The Pat Kenny Show
Billy Hann, CEO of Dublin

And I'm wondering, you see, people are saying, I see the bus, whatever it might be, the E2 or the S1 or whatever it might be, it's there and then it's gone.

The Pat Kenny Show
Lebanon & the unfolding humanitarian crisis

How are people feeling about what has happened to them?