Mr. Jeremy Ryan:

We have been working with Irish Rail on this as a starting point to look at what we can do about introducing more clock-face type timetables, on rail in particular, as a starting point throughout the country, as best we can on the network we have. The reason for that is if we can get clock-face, predictable arrival times, be they half hourly, hourly, two hourly or what have you, at railway stations, we can integrate bus with rail much more efficiently and straightforwardly because bus services will not have to work around an unpredictable rail timetable. We are at the first stage of that integration work. We expect to see that Irish Rail, in a week or two's time, will submit draft timetables, which will be going out for consultation later in May. We will not get everything we want in this stage but we will see how we get on with the initial stage.