Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one final question. On new route development, and I have seen these S4s, S6s in my own area and so on, but how much "going out to the public" does the NTA do with regard to people who live in Stillorgan and work in Blanchardstown, or people who live in Greystones and work in Balbriggan, or wherever? I know that there are certain routes which are there and are relatively straightforward but there are many routes where people would never even think of getting public transport, say from Donnybrook to Rathfarnham, for example. How does the NTA find out where demand for routes which do not exist is and how does the authority anticipate the demand where, for example, such a service was introduced? The 175 service has now been replaced. City West to UCD seems like a no-brainer now but it was never there until about two years ago. How does the NTA find the new routes?