Ms Anne Graham:

Yes, but we need to understand that road congestion has an impact on journey times. Operators do their best to analyse, based on the data they have, what the journey times are and they put in an updated timetable but that needs to be done a significant number of times. I will give the example of Cork, where we have looked at road congestion and what it is doing to the bus services there. On one route we see that since 2019, congestion has added ten minutes to one particular service at each peak time. One very short route has been delayed by at least ten minutes between one part of the day and another. Deputy Murphy can imagine what it would do to the 115 service if we had similar levels of congestion growing at that rate on the route.