Mr. Hugh Creegan:

Gardiner Street was the route for the A spine in the network design over the summer. Many bus services run down Gardiner Street, including Bus Éireann services, so in the revised network design, we will look at whether the A spine should go down O'Connell Street with some other bus services on Gardiner Street or if it should stay the same. We do not know yet. We are certain that both O'Connell Street and Gardiner Street will be busy with buses. While O'Connell Street effectively has bus priority by exclusion of cars, Gardiner Street does not, and we need to improve it. We need bus priority on Gardiner Street for the current system and whatever system we have in the future. That is why we put forward this. It does not presuppose which route the current bus service will run down.

I have had the request about splitting the consultation from others. There is a logic to that and we will consider it. There is also a logic to keeping it together and managing it as a single corridor. Will the committee give us the opportunity to consider it? Resources to manage it are an issue. If we had only one corridor to handle, it would be simple but we have 16 corridors around the city. Starting to split them up in twos and getting requests to split them into threes makes it very-----