Mr. Hugh Creegan:

I believe I was dealing with Senator Seery Kearney's queries, metro south west being the first one. Regarding the invitation to attend the council, it was actually an area committee. We struggle with our availability to attend all area committee invitations. It has written to us again and we still have to respond. We try to meet councils in their full format once per year to go through many issues. We get invited to more area committees and other committees than we can manage to attend.

The Senator is correct about BusConnects. There are two submissions with An Bord Pleanála and another is on the way, with a notice appearing in the newspapers tomorrow, namely, Blanchardstown to the city centre. It is being submitted tomorrow, we might say.

The fourth one, from Liffey Valley to the city centre, will be submitted in about two weeks and we hope to get in two more during July. It will be the second half of the year before we have a further six to go, which will include several in the south east and south west of the city. I do not have dates for them but our target is to get them all in by the year end.

In summary, by tomorrow we will have three in, in two weeks' time we will have four and we will then try to build on that.