Mr. Conor O'Donovan:

The funding as part of Connecting Ireland would not cover the town services. That is dealt with separately in a towns programme. In relation to the distribution of services, our approach to date has been to try to spread it among all the transport co-ordination units, TCUs. In most of the TCUs, we have one or two to come in over the next couple of years. There are a few areas in, for example, Cork, Tipperary and Kilkenny where we need to focus and do more. We have projects lined up. In some areas, we have broadly completed the main Connecting Ireland programme. Now, we are focusing on areas where there is a dearth of services and we are trying to improve that. We have a clear idea of what we want to do. At the end of that, there will be business as usual, namely, the ongoing need to upgrade services. There has been a particular emphasis in the past few years on evening services, which are something we have done more of in that time, and people demand more frequency on the services currently operating. We are trying to balance expanding services into new areas and improving existing services.