Ms Anne Graham:

Route 5 went from Waterford to Dublin via Enniscorthy. It was an Expressway route that was terminated in 2015. A number of towns, including Enniscorthy, would have had reductions in services and we served that by extending one of the public service obligation, PSO, services, which was route 132. We then tendered with Wexford Local Link. It introduced a number of rural transport services to connect the towns of Clonroche, Bunclody and Tullow to Enniscorthy and New Ross and then for onward connections on route 4, which is an Expressway service. As we manage the rural transport programme and the contracts with Bus Éireann on its PSO, we can make a number of different interventions to ensure that local communities continue to have services. In some of those towns there was an increased level of service and connectivity as a result of the provisions we made.