Ms Anne Graham:

As more people use a service, the types of issues of issues the Deputy raised about the wheelchair and buggy space always arise. There are separate spaces for buggies and wheelchairs. If there are particular issues on a particular service, if the Deputy lets us know what they are, we will have a look at them and see what we can do about them. We tend to leave a service operating for at least six months to see how it settles and then make changes, rather than making changes immediately.

We usually give it about six months, do a quick review and then see if we need to tweak it in terms of the timetable or additional capacity - it would be great if we always got what was required - and hopefully we get the funding to provide that.

On Bagenalstown station, unmanned stations, toilets and accessible toilets, we want to review the issue generally across the infrastructure, not necessarily to man the stations but to see how we can provide toilet facilities. If they are not available on trains, they need to be available at the station. We will take that away; it is an area we want to improve. On free travel and having to book, I am not sure about the bus but on the train side, Irish Rail introduced a booking fee because it found there were mass bookings and they were not being taken up, which was impacting service provision. I am not sure if wheelchair-accessible space needs to be booked in advance. We will get back to the Deputy about that.