Mr. Hugh Creegan:

No, I cannot use that excuse. I will not use that one. We did an enormous amount of consultation on BusConnects, which the Deputy is referring to there. Unfortunately it was a couple of years ago and it has taken us longer to implement than we would like. Part of the engagement and knowledge of that has been lost at this stage. We do things but I appreciate that when we are making changes to the bus network in particular, we need to have big communications campaigns. We are doing a change on 19 October on what we call the F spine from Tallaght to Finglas. There is a leaflet drop of 250,000 leaflets going out. There are briefings to public representatives and a major communications campaign, plus people on the street at bus stops for a period. We do all those things but I have found, as I am sure the Deputy has himself, that even though we do all that there will still be people who have not received the information and need a follow-up of some type. We will certainly do that wherever we need to do it.