Mr. Hugh Creegan:

Our primary function is to operate the core bus system or scheduled bus system that we have. When an event it is taking place, sometimes we know about it and other times we do not. Sometimes we know about it very late; sometimes a little bit earlier. Sometimes there are multiple events on across the city because there is not always co-ordination between different event organisers. What happens in those case is, if it is possible to support an event with additional services, that will be done, but quite often those events are occurring at a point where do not have the ability to inject additional vehicles and additional drivers.

The committee heard already about the difficulty in getting drivers and the challenges there. There is no shelf of drivers and spare vehicles that we can inject into an event. If the operators have the capacity to provide an extra service, that will happen. There is no impediment, other than the availability of the necessary resources.