Ms Anne Graham:

It depends how many people are living in a location and how many jobs there are, for example. We examine the census data to see what trips people are making. If they are making a proportion of those trips by car but there is potential to increase the frequency of public transport, then we might get a shift from the car to public transport. This is what Connecting Ireland is all about. It is concerned with trying to improve the frequency of services, to provide new services where there are none to try to encourage people to use public transport, and to make those services as frequent as is reasonable for the local demand. Anywhere we have increased frequency across our urban services to our rural services, we have seen a good response in the numbers of people using those services.