Ms Fiona Ross:

I will bow to my colleagues around the table on the specific aspects of decarbonisation and sustainability because this can be missed at operational level. My colleagues have sight of the fleet and transport activities that we, at the holding company, do not. Essentially, the holding company employs 170 people to work on financial sustainability.

On the climate change agenda, we can talk about the specifics relating to the fleet. There is a lot of work being done on biodiversity across the group. We have talked about transport-oriented development and that can have an impact on modal shift as well.

Deputy Dooley referred to free transport. We have had an interesting situation this year where the State has, essentially, supported the transport network substantially. It has certainly given us that support and we are grateful for it in the context of having had such a significant shortfall in both passengers and in revenue. It is such a large-scale investment by the State that it would have to be compared with some of the capital investment and the longer-term plans that we have for the fleet, BusConnects and some of the big projects that Mr. Allen can discuss, such as the those within Irish Rail, and with any other expectations we have. Fundamentally, we believe that we have a great service to offer to the passengers of Ireland. Perhaps the other chairpersons will also comment about their individual companies.