Mr. Tim Gaston:

-----where the services will be, termini, turning points and so on, work out how many buses and give an estimate of the cost. We will go to the market for that. That is our plan.

The Senator raised a question regarding Irish Rail and integration, which has come up a couple of times. The same team that is managing Connecting Ireland has a joint working group with Irish Rail on its timetabling and network planning, which meets on a monthly basis. Some 19 of the services that went in last year were specifically targeted to timetable with trains. Where we are putting in a new service or enhancing an existing one, we will certainly take very clear note of the train service and the inter-regional bus services because, clearly, rocking up somewhere when the train has just gone is utterly frustrating. That is something the same team is working on.