Mr. Billy Hann:

I cannot give the Deputy an exact time but I will give him the complexity around it. It is not only a matter of giving a new timetable. It is about having buses, drivers, mechanics to service those buses and depot capacity available. It is about the whole infrastructure that it is required to deliver the service on any given day. We cannot just turn on and off bus drivers. If we are looking at flexing up and flexing down for events, we would need to have that infrastructure in place.

The way to probably address it, and the way we are trying to address it in Dublin Bus, is getting more part-time drivers in and have them working X amount of days a week where we can flex them up or flex them down. We are only at the very early stages of implementing that. We have approximately eight part-time workers in. There is not a great appetite, believe it or not, for part-time bus drivers at this moment in time in the market, but it is something we are exploring and trying to do, and flex it up as quickly as we possibly can. We are not contracted to do that at the moment, however. That is important to recognise.