Pat Kenny
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Not easily at any rate.
We're almost at the top of that particular horizontal line.
Now, one of the impacts of all of this is if you get a windscreen that's cracked, it has to be repaired.
We're well up.
We're at between 130 and 140.
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.
Maybe Denmark is slightly ahead of us on that score.
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.
And the question is, with all that wealth, why can't we deliver?
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.
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
Is the current system 15 years old?
Is that your own system or is that TFI?
I mean, I read from your blog the things that you talk about and what people feel, what might drive them to Melbourne.
They said they got 100 key Hezbollah.
That's what they were after.
The three-hour commute and traffic, the closed GP list, the โฌ2,200 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 โฌ12 sandwiches.
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.
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.
How are people feeling about what has happened to them?