Mr. Martin Nolan:

Let me address the questions on Cork and Galway. There is an international movement to double public transport provision by 2025 and many companies and governments have signed up to it. We in Bus Éireann are pursuing it, the major element is to get 50 people out of cars and on to a bus. To do that one needs three things, frequency, reliability and attractiveness. We have put in additional frequency with the support of the NTA, which provided money as well. We were able to put double-deck buses into services. The reliability is not good in provincial cities because the priority measures are not there. We need an advantage over cars in provincial cities. Once one starts to grow public transport to make it attractive, one goes to vehicles such as BRT, which is a pre-tram system that operates in Belfast and which is being introduced in Dublin. We need to plan for it in the provincial cities as well. The Bus Éireann Expressway is moving into a subsidiary and is not being hived off. On the question of reduced terms and conditions of employment, the most I can say is that we are similar to Aer Lingus and Ryanair, we must get it within a range of the market without going down to the lowest common denominator. That is a question we need to work through with the WRC and the LRC.