Ms Anne Graham:

I will start with the question on why the bus network was put ahead of the bus corridors. It would have been preferable if the bus corridor infrastructure had been put in place ahead of the network, but then the public would have needed to wait for a much improved network of services in advance of getting the infrastructure.

We want to do BusConnects as a whole and for it to be measured as a whole, but its implementation must be done on a phased basis. We wanted to bring a better network to the people of the greater Dublin area, and I believe we are doing so through the BusConnects network. We wanted to bring that ahead as early as possible and then have further benefits associated with the bus corridors, which would start reducing journey times and removing congestion from the system to provide for even greater reliability.

Mr. Gaston might speak to the G spine. We acknowledge that its running times have turned out to be longer than we had planned. We need to respond to that quickly.