Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The answer is yes. We could do a longer one, but the short answer is yes.

We genuinely have not worked out a sequence to construct the various bus corridors. I accept Deputy Curran's point that the Lucan bus corridor has a lower number of properties and would be much simpler in many respects. When we come to work through a sequence, that will be a significant consideration. What we do know, as we have said here before, is that we cannot do all of the bus corridors at the one time. They do have to be sequenced and we need to get a little further on in the design process before working out the sequence.

On how the network redesign is progressing, we are still going through the 30,000 submissions received. In parallel, we are working to pick up on the issues from the submissions and looking at what the intervention might be. We will have it done in a number of months.

As we stated earlier, we will kick off a second round of consultation at the start of September.

While we understand that it causes confusion when we speak about BusConnects and when we speak about bus lanes one day and bus services the other day, it will be confusing no matter what we call it. If we call it something completely different, there will still be a level of confusion. We have tried to simplify our language by referring to bus services and bus lanes when we speak to people, but we accept that there is so much going on that it will inevitably cause confusion.

MetroLink is the scheme that will extend from Swords to south of Charlemont, although the overall metro scheme will eventually reach Sandyford, as per the original intention. On the costing of the plan, as we stated yesterday at the launch and in our brochure, to obtain an accurate and fully developed cost estimate one needs to have settled on the design and have the design further developed. We are still in the process of consultation and the level of change can be seen from the first phase to now. It is our intention that when the design is moved on further, we will start preparing a business case, and later this year we will develop a robust cost estimate. We have brought on board an international person, Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, who is involved in mega-projects around the world and deals with cost and estimation issues. He was brought in six months ago to provide assistance and advice on how to put the project together. Later this year, we will have developed our position much further and will prepare a full business case, which will be made publicly available.