Mr. Hugh Creegan:

It is not just funding. It is the physical ability to install the bus shelter. The biggest delay we have with bus shelters is in modification to the road. The Deputy will be aware that you can put a bus stop in a particular location that is not obscuring visibility. If you put in a bus shelter and that bus stop is on a corner, it does not work. Suddenly, everything has to change. You must find a new place to stop the bus, build a new hard standing and so forth. The biggest constraint is not funding but the ability of the local authorities, with all the demands on them at present, to carry out the road modifications necessary to install additional bus shelters. As I said, we try to manage this by working out programmes with them that deal with their top 20 or 30. When we get those done we will be in a better position to roll out more. It is less about funding and more about local authority resources and the physical constraints of installing a bus shelter as opposed to a simple pole.