Mr. Stephen Kent:

We are huge advocates of seeing whether we can do more of this. We have been making progress for years but it is still far too slow. Much of it relates to infrastructure and liaison with the council or with the NTA, which might be funding the stops. Many steps have to be taken. We work with a disability user group, which is a very good forum. It raises some of the concerns and we try to explain we will move through it where we can and make the progress we can, but progress has to be made on a county-by-county basis and with the councils. A lot of the infrastructure is going in, so there should not be any safety concerns when we have raised it, but it is an issue. Sometimes the issue is not even caused by this. In many instances, we cannot access the bus stops because cars park in them, and that is a huge issue. If we could resolve that, we would be doing more than even on the infrastructure for the stop itself. That is the main bugbear we have, and I am sure the other operators would attest to that.