Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The Deputy is correct. There is a different level of provision in different local authorities. Without dwelling on it too long, for years we struggled to put in bus shelters. We could not rock up to Kerry with a digger and start digging up the footpath. We needed to go through the council, and it was hard to get the councils to devote time to it. Two years ago, we started to provide an allocation of €500,000 to every council in the country for the provision of bus shelters and bus stops.

In the case of Kerry County Council, it has €500,000 to put in whatever shelters and bus stops we can agree with it. The only thing we need to do is to agree the locations. This is not a problem. It just has to be done. The issue for the council then is that it has lots of priorities, as the Deputy knows better than me, and it is a question of getting attention. Some councils do quite a bit of work in the bus shelter and bus stop area while other councils do less. The simple process is that the council is now responsible for putting in bus shelters. We provide the bus shelter to the council free of charge. We have a contractor that will supply it and deliver it.