Danny Healy-Rae pushes for move of Farran 4 bus stop

Thank you very much. I'm glad that you're here today and thank you very much for coming. I suppose I have a few questions there. One of them I asked, was it Stephen Kint was here previously in relation to the bus stop in Fann 4? And it's a busy bus stop between Fann 4, between Killahanna and Tralee, and there's one going to Tralee, we'll say in the half hour, and there's one coming from Tralee, so there's two buses in the hall, one coming and one going, and they're stopping in the middle of the street in Fann 4, and this is going on for years now, and people are standing in the rain, there's no bus shelter there or anything, but what happens then is there's people coming, waiting for them to get on the bus. Someone drives them into the yard of the local Kimmish, and they're there, there's a number of people waiting for buses to come to put people on it, and there's people waiting for, in the yard, for to pick up people coming off of the buses. So, the question that I asked was, see could the bus stop be moved down about 200 yards into the railway station yard? And I have got no answer since. I got a previous answer when I was a county councillor, that the buses couldn't come out on the road, that they wouldn't be able to turn. But I have a promise of a bus myself, and I have a bus licence, and I'll drive the bus into the yard, and I'll show them that I can do it, and I'm sure they'll be able to do it as well, but whatever. Hang up, they have about doing it. It must be sorted out, because it didn't fare, number one, to have people standing in the rain, continuously. You know how much rain we're getting, and Kerry gets more than its share, I think we must do something about that too. But, and the other thing is, we're obstructing this man, that's paying rates and everything, we're obstructing his business, Woodcars Parton, in his small yard all the time. And people come for medicine, and prescriptions, and all that, and they can hardly get into the yard at times. And look, it's grand, but it can be sorted out, because the railway station, they're the one company. So I'm asking, did anything come of my question with Stephen Kint? And I'll ask a couple more then. In relation to the bridge that was planned for to join the railway station, and the train station, at the railway station, and the bus station, in Killarney town. We hear it's been knocked off the shelf, and wondering why, because people, if they arrive on the train, they have to walk out the door of the train station, down past the Great Southern Hotel, across the railway road, and up the street, towards the bus station. And that's not fair with bags and different things. And Killarney is a very busy town with tourists, and I'm asking that that please be sorted out. The other thing I'm asking, we have a great service now between Killarney and Kinmear, they go through Kilgarvin and the way, but they seem to have the biggest of buses. I think size down would help, because there's bad turns on the road, and the buses are even meeting themselves, and they have to go well out over the white line to go around some of the bins, otherwise their tail will get cut up in footpaths and different things. So it's only a thought, because I just have a mid-seater bus myself, 24 or 25 seats, but there's ones all the way up. But you don't have to have the largest ones, so I'm just curious if you have anything to say. OK, so if I take the three of them, I think you spoke to Stephen Kent, and I was here about the Farron 4 bus stop, and I think Stephen wants to come back to you. Stephen is now retired, so what we'll commit to is we'll come back to you on the Farron 4 stop. I don't know what the answer will be, whether it's good or bad, but we'll come back to you with a clear answer, and we'll do that quickly. On connecting the bus and railway station in Killarney, I am familiar with that one. We did look at it, and yes, it's possible to connect it, but it's a few million euro, and we genuinely thought it's not worth spending the money on it. That's been open with you. You can walk around to make the connection. I know it's about 400 metres, but the choice becomes spending 2 or 3 million to wheelchair access in another station or do that connection, and we thought that wheelchair access in other stations represented better value. So it's possible to do it, but we just don't have the funding, enough funding for us to move it to the top of the list. That's the honest answer on that. And on the road between Killarney and Kilmer and the larger route buses, that's an operator choice. They probably have so many passengers that transition into a smaller bus, they'll have to do two drivers and two buses to cover it. I suspect that's part of it, but knowing some of the roads down there, I can imagine the double-deck coaches is not easy to navigate. Well, I can assure you that the buses never full. We're very appreciative of the service, and it's suiting everyone. It's helping the community a lot. But it could be looked at maybe a size down and to make a big difference for the drivers to help them and the safety of them on the windy road as well. And then even going through Killarney Village, there's a right bad bin there. And I have seen them meeting, and they have to backen. There's cars up behind them, and it creates a bit of for all life. So it's only just a thought maybe we could... And acquire off them, is it possible? All right. And thank you very much. And thank you, Cahir. Thank you. You're welcome, Deputy. A few questions.