Mr. Billy Hann:

As we said in our opening statement, we have recruited 319 staff in 2022 and an additional 39 bus drivers since the last committee meeting. We are short 120 to deliver on our current network. We need an additional 90 bus drivers to deliver on phase 5 of our BusConnects programme. All in all, by the end of 2023 we will need 280 staff, which includes retirements. We have very detailed resource planning that determines the numbers going out of the organisation and the number we need to come in to deliver on our current network services and the BusConnects programme. It is important to note that, from an applications point of view, bearing in mind that we put an incredible amount of work into the recruitment process-----