Mr. Hugh Creegan:

On the phases, BusConnects is too big to deliver in one single phase, so it has to be staggered. There is an enormous amount of work being done by Dublin Bus and by our own teams to plan each phase appropriately. That is the real reason the addition of the circulatory services around Greystones and Bray are included in a phase. We will get to that phase as soon as we get the earlier ones completed. It is not necessarily that the stock is holding up or anything else. It is simply that the amount of work involved in timetabling and doing all the communications and everything else that needs to be done mean that it needs to be done incrementally. A plan was worked out and the phase, which is probably the one the Deputy mentioned, will be got to in sequence.

On the buses, I am not sure yet what the buses will be. There will have to a proofing exercise done on the route. It could be because they are relatively short routes that single deck will be sufficient, in which case, I suspect depending on where we are with the depot electrification, it could be electric vehicles. It just a little too early for us to be definitive on it yet. We have a policy in place and we are transitioning over to fully electric fleet. We have contracts in place to purchase single-deck electric and double-deck electric. All the urban buses coming in from now on will be fully electric buses. Depending on what the fleet needs are on the day in question, we will determine what the actual bus type will be. It is a little too early to be definitive.