Mr. Gerry Murphy:

Yes. The tunnel is in very good condition. Only minor works are needed on it and trains go through it at present. The track itself was renewed in 1998. At a maximum, we have €12 million to spend overall on the line to get it ready for passenger services. It is in very good condition.

With regard to businesses, loading and parking, when the cross-city Luas is operational, the economic life of the city will be able to carry on, as planned. Businesses and the retail sector can be served and car parks can be accessed. There will be appropriate traffic movement to allow that, in addition to appropriate loading movements. With regard to buses on O'Connell Street, there is no doubt that we must examine the service patterns of Dublin Bus to 2017. There is no point in having buses replicate the exact same service that the cross-city Luas will provide. When the green and red Luas lines were installed, there was a reconfiguration of bus services to match that. Ultimately, the service offering will be better for the public but it may be that people will use light rail rather than bus services for certain routes. One of the challenges in Dublin is not the radial services into the city centre but the fact that we had to make some cuts to services to peripheral local areas around Dublin. These are services we would like to reintroduce. The orbital services around Dublin are actually the ones that require a lot of growth.

I will hand over to Mr. Creegan, who will talk about taxi ranks.