Mr. Ray Coyne:

We would operate them anywhere but in that area, given the discussion this morning.

There is significant work ongoing with the NTA on increased priority on bus corridors. We have 14 corridors coming into the city centre. We have had tremendous benefits on them. In fairness hard decisions have been made. We can look to recent improvements in Drumcondra where there was a compulsory purchase order on land. BusConnects provides a huge amount of that and it is necessary. What was done on the Stillorgan Road 20 years ago is the exemplar. There was a lot of angst about the plans at that time. At that time we got success and we were able to point to that success and deliver it to other areas because people were afraid of what may or may not be. At the time Parliament Street had the only bus lane in the city. We now have a huge number of bus lanes.

The NTA is designing to increase the standards of our current QBCs and to add new QBCs. An example of that would be stop lines right up to traffic lights, instead of allowing cars to filter in and out because that delays the progress of buses. We will get increased stop lines and we will get increased infrastructure access around the alignments. Off-street ticketing could be pursued. The NTA is working on them. They are well advanced on them. As I do not work in the NTA, I do not have the specific answers. I am sure the NTA would be happy to feed in that information. I know it is well advanced on the corridors.

We feed in our information from a bus operation and customer experience point of view. That is part of BusConnects. I know it is very well advanced. The bus network design probably will be the first explicit thing customers will see, allowing them to say, "This is BusConnects. Now I can see some tangible changes." That will be the consultation period. I assure the Deputy that there is significant planning on it. Regarding BusConnects, there is no intention to introduce radical changes in areas where there are planned infrastructure changes; that may or may not happen. It will operate in tandem. I cannot give specifics on the-----