Ms Dervla McKay:

The Deputy is correct overall. This time last year, my predecessor was before the committee. Like other operators we were struggling from a driver resource point of view. I am pleased to say we are now in a much better place. We are fewer than ten short of what we need for our roster, which is a small number, and we have a few coming on stream now. We are more or less fully staffed, which is a fantastic position to be in. At any one time we have almost 100 people in our training schools. Our pipeline is strong and allows us to cope with the most recent and future phases of BusConnects, which is excellent. In terms of overall performance, on our services we are - by and large - within where we need to be, which is approximately 98% reliability. The punctuality of individual services obviously varies from service to service. What affects a service on a given day depends on traffic conditions and all of the other things being discussed today. We are happy to take directly offline the detail of how individual services are performing. We work collaboratively week by week with the National Transport Authority on our plans for the future.