Ms Anne Graham:

A number of different issues are associated with that. To get a good sense of how people feel about safety on public transport, we monitor that sentiment. We survey regularly how people feel about their safety at the bus stop, on their bus service, on their Luas service and on their DART and rail services. The perception of safety is relatively high overall, even for night-time services. It is slightly lower for women, which we expected. We saw a fall in the higher level of perception of safety, as in people feeling very satisfied with their level of safety. The overall levels between "very" and "good" did not drop significantly, but the higher levels dropped during the Covid period.

We will run that sentiment survey again later this year to see whether the perception of safety has improved as a result of some of the activity we have undertaken with our operators and An Garda Síochána, working very closely together to ensure there is more visibility not only in the city centre but also across the public transport services, particularly at night-time.