Mr. Jim Meade:

I will take those questions in the order in which the Deputy asked them. The issue with Balbriggan has been raised with us. It has been raised through the complaints process and by Senator Clifford-Lee too. We are moving it back from 4.19 p.m. and not having the gap in the timetable to around 4.14 p.m., which will help with that school.

On the Deputy’s second point, from 2018 we launched a document jointly with Translink in Northern Ireland with the vision of putting an hourly service in place. It was linked directly with the opening of Grand Central Station in Belfast and with having fleet availability. Translink bought some new fleet and we did too. It is how we sweat the asset best to bring in the hourly service. It was not a Government or ministerial direction. It was directly linked to the opening of Belfast Grand Central Station. That was the imperative, and it has always been there. It has needed an hourly service for a long time. The two cities should have an hourly service just like the service between Cork and Dublin.