Mr. Ciar?n Rogan:

Regarding the 68, 68A and 68X, which was removed in May on the grounds of passenger numbers, it is difficult to address the Deputy's specific queries on the dates in December and so on, but I will happily take all of the details away and perform a service review for the days in question. Judging from what the Deputy has said, we need a detailed demand pattern review of what is happening. We will do that in conjunction with the NTA. We will take the details of the 68 and 68A services that the Deputy mentioned and see what is necessary. We will take into account what is meant to happen in a future phase of BusConnects.

Dropped services are not acceptable and we apologise to people who were badly affected on what was a rainy night. We will aspire to do better. I am actually surprised that that number of journeys was dropped that night. It is not a high-frequency service, so there should not have been so many. The situation is well worth a detailed review. I will revert to the committee.