Ms Anne Graham:

No formal proposal has gone to the Government because we continually work with our operators to respond to where they have to put in additional running time to deliver the service that they are contracted to deliver. We know that at other times, it does add-in cost to the provision of those services. That work is ongoing. We will work with Dublin Bus and Go Ahead to see what additional running time needs to be put in in respect of the services they are operating.

On top of that, we want to deliver the next phases of BusConnects. We are all working together to deliver that. It is dependent on driver recruitment getting to the levels both operators have indicated to be able to deliver all the phases that we are scheduled to deliver next year. We will pause delivery until we get to the point where at each stage we have sufficient drivers to deliver the expansion of services through BusConnects. That is our plan. Mr. Gaston may have some more detail.