Mr. Ray Coyne:

I will be brief. I thank the Deputy for her kind words for our employees. I will feed that back. They were exceptional during the pandemic, and continue to be. That brings me on to our retention strategy. The main aspects we focus on with our employees is that we have a purpose that is very well respected in the organisation, namely, serving the public. We advise our employees of that and remind them of it. We are very proud of that as are our employees. We respect all our employees. We do offer them good pay and conditions and reward them with that. We also offer them a career. I have been in Dublin Bus since I was 18. I have been there for 33 years. It is a great organisation. We offer significant opportunity for employees. However, we are like an commercial state body. We do have market forces that dictate what is and is not acceptable. We do have challenges particularly at our maintenance grade from other organisations which pay significantly more. We have apprenticeship schemes in place and we continue to provide the best terms and conditions that we can and we think are market leading that and respecting the excellent work they do. As the Deputy said, people are coming after our employees because they are the best in the business. It is our job to retain them and we do a good job on that. Our campaign, Get Thanked for a Living, built upon that. We have had some great feedback on that. It has been really positive.

On climate and electrification, we will have some new buses coming in this year. The NTA will purchase those. All our depots will go full electrification over a planned time line. We are out to tender on the first phase of that. We are also exploring new deports. There is a depot strategy around existing depots and future depots. We had a site in Grange Castle 15 or 20 years ago. We will be looking at south west Dublin because there are some attractive areas there with regard to new depots. They would be built for full electrification and hydrogen. We will see where the market goes. I hope that answers the Deputy's questions.