Ms Anne Graham:

We cannot do everything all at once. We have set out in all our strategies and in Connecting Ireland what we want to deliver. It does not happen overnight. We must deliver as best we can with the funding that is given to us by the Government.

Government can make different decisions related to funding. That is its prerogative. We implement those as we are implementing the reduction in fares. We, as an authority, have to examine what we can do with the funding that is available that to us to get the best return for that funding for the public. We have seen that where we provide services where there have not been services before or very poor services, the public responds and uses them. That is what we will be bringing forward with Connecting Ireland. We were already starting to deliver on those additional services across the country.