Mr. Stephen Kent:

I will take some of those. We have put in the Athlone town service. All of the electric transition has been funded by the NTA and there is a programme. We have gone from Athlone into Limerick. We are currently working on Cork, Galway and Sligo to get them ready. They will probably all land in the next 24 months. That is where we are in relation to those. It will then follow on in Waterford city. There is a priority for towns and cities for EVs. That is the general direction of those. As we said, we are constrained with rural services. That is mostly because, to a large extent, when you get EVs you have to then charge. We will look at that and say, ideally, for shorter runs, EVs are a long-term solution, but we are trying to focus on cities first.

What is the bridge in the short term? The bridge in the next couple of years is the movement into biofuel blends, where you can lower emissions, if you can. At best, it is about having vehicles that will accept Euro 6 engines, which we have. Those are the lowest emission vehicles we have. Believe it or not, we still have ones that have to be upgraded to the lowest version of diesel. We are trying to do that. The second part is we are moving into a blend at the moment. Some of the blend CIÉ is receiving at the moment has 30% HVO blended into that fuel. That will reduce it to some extent.