Mr. Martin Nolan:

I will take some of the questions and we might approach others jointly. Passenger numbers on the PSO side have been very good in the last number of years, but it has been patchy in some areas. There is more growth in Dublin and Cork than in rural Ireland. The provincial cities grew by 4% last year and Cork alone is up by 8% or 9% in the last couple of months. We anticipate similar growth this year. The vehicles that are coming in will be deployed across the whole network, but there are specific places that require additional capacity. We are putting additional double-deck vehicles into Cork and taking out single-deck vehicles. There will be additional capacity around the greater Dublin area given what has happened in terms of congestion. We need to put a bit of capacity in there in conjunction with the NTA.

We are 100% wheelchair accessible at this stage and well ahead of most of Europe on that, which is very pleasing.

There are no losses on the public service obligation services, but Bus Éireann has made losses on the commercial services. There is a distinction between commercial and PSO services. The intercity service is commercial and must always come back to profit. We will bring it back to profit. I ask Mr. Tim Gaston to speak on routes 5 and 7.