Ms Anne Graham:

The Deputy is right that we should be providing transport on an equal basis and that would be our ambition. We are probably the only authority that can now look at all public transport services together, whether they are provided commercially or by way of a subsidy from the State. We now also have the demand-responsive rural transport services, which are directly managed by ourselves. That gives us the opportunity to look across all service provision and plan the resources to ensure the links are better made between the services. We continually review services on an area-by-area basis and just did a public consultation on services in County Mayo in respect of how we might better use the existing services there to try and meet local demand. We hope to continue that on a county-by-county basis using the resources of the transport co-ordination units. We are very well placed to do the type of review the Deputy has indicated. We have undertaken such reviews and will continue to do so.