Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The Deputy knows that we take these things seriously and we try to make changes. We have added a lot of capacity to the 133 service. We monitor when we need to add capacity and if we have vehicles and drivers available, we add capacity. I will take away an action to look at the 133 service again. We changed the timetable a number of months ago and we put an additional service in as part of that change.

Some of the challenges we face are worth noting. Congestion on the roads causes all sorts of problems. We timetable a bus to run a route and start a return journey. However, where the road has got more congested or there is an event on, the bus does not get to its route end and it cannot start the return journey. I appreciate that this affects people but we are stuck with that. We do not control that. We try to make changes, such as on the N11, where there is a proposal to create bus lanes along the motorway, which has its own problems.

On the train from Gorey to Dublin, I was not aware that there was a change made to reduce the capacity but I will check it out. I genuinely was not aware of that. The Deputy will know our view on the long-term position of that corridor. We need to run an hourly DART to Wicklow and then a much more frequent service from south of Wicklow, but that would require interchange at Wicklow. However, I will check out that issue because I am not aware that the train fleet was adjusted.