Mr. Eoin Gillard:

I thank the Deputy. In relation to electrification and the communication of it and its benefits, we are still in the early days of the roll-out, but there have been concerted information campaigns on the full electrification of the Athlone town service. There was quite a lot of communication of that, the benefits associated with it and the influence it has had on the town. Similarly, we have fully electrified the service in Limerick as well with the full electrification of the depot.

In Dublin, we are still very much in the early stages. We have rolled out somewhere between 100 and 150 electric buses, with the part-electrification of approximately three depots. We are really only starting that communication campaign about the benefits of electrification once those services are bedded in. Over the next number of months, we will be putting out more communication about the benefits of those.