Ms Anne Graham:

That depends on the location. I cannot give the Deputy a blanket statement related to every townland in the State. It depends on what service has changed - whether there have been any changes to the Expressway services. We would look at the towns that had been served by a service that may be withdrawn, work with local communities to see what the demand for services in those areas is and provide an appropriate service. This could be done through looking at the existing remaining commercial services, seeing whether we can extend or change the current contracted services we have with Bus Éireann and changes to the Locallink or new Locallink services if required. We did this in 2015 where, as I outlined in my statement, route 5 Expressway services were withdrawn. We did a number of different things. There were changes to some of the route 4 Expressway services. We extended some of the PSO services contracted with Bus Éireann and provided new Locallink services that fed into those key Bus Éireann services that provided the connectivity. We believe that some towns actually got more service per day and better connectivity because we were able to design the service around local needs.