Mr. Jeremy Ryan:

We do have capacity issues at peak times, but we also have them off-peak and inter-peak times. We have particular issues in the evening, between the times at which students come out of schools and the time at which work closes. That is between 3.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. We also have issues on weekends on occasion, such as on Saturday afternoons when people are travelling out of Dublin. We have capacity issues then. This is a little bit different to pre-Covid times when services were quite peaked in terms of demand and when there was less demand for inter-peak times. The growth in demand has primarily been outside the peak, at weekends, evenings, and between the morning and evening peaks. That is where we have seen a growth and that is partly to do with changes in travel behaviours. It is also to do with the fact that services now run at those times. People have got used to being able to avail of those services outside of the traditional peak times as network redesign in Dublin in particular has been rolled out.

People have gotten used to being able to avail of those services outside of the traditional peak times. A network wedesigned in Dublin in particular has been rolled out. Changing fares to deal with that probably is not the answer.