Ms Anne Graham:

We recognise that. In any reviews of the rural transport programme, as we rolled through, we always put forward that we needed the local input into whatever services we were planning and we needed people to manage the services locally on our behalf because that is the most appropriate structure to put in place.

In case there is confusion on the Connecting Ireland plan, what is proposed in that plan is the scheduling of regular scheduled services, where we want to improve those services. Associated with those are the demand-responsive services. They are not set out in the plan.