Ms Anne Graham:

I am sorry the Senator feels that way about the work we are doing to try to make our services equal. She and I will not agree on the guidelines on the island bus stops.

I do not have the figures for how many are going to be installed but I can get them for the Senator.

We did engage on the cycle manual. I am not sure what the Senator means when she speaks of contradictory guidance. We produced the guidance in relation to active travel which looks at how to provide active travel alongside public transport services. It allows for floating islands but we are not saying that is an ideal solution. It is the best solution we could come up with in order to ensure safe cycling infrastructure and pedestrian access to bus stops for those who are using our public transport services. It was the best solution we could come up with at that time and is provided not just in Ireland but in other jurisdictions as well. We are not saying it is perfect but what we are saying is that we are trying to improve the accessibility of those services by ensuring that cyclists will be required to slow down and to stop and putting that in place. That is not available in other jurisdictions. That is something we have added to the design to ensure we can provide the safest infrastructure possible.