Mr. Billy Hann:

I thank Deputy O'Rourke for the question. I would be confident we will reach those numbers. The recruitment plan we put in place, which is quite extensive, resulted in the recruitment of 219 staff this year to date. As for the requirements going forward, we are recruiting all the time. We have plans in place and we track them on a weekly basis to see whether we are matching them.

We have 229 applications at the moment. That is on the back end of the extensive recruitment campaign, including the open days. We had one last Saturday on O'Connell Street, which I attended myself. It was extremely well-attended. It was very encouraging to see the number of people who are actually interested in making applications to be bus drivers in Dublin Bus. I would be confident that we will make that number. Staff retention is not an issue for Dublin Bus. We are-----