Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 321: To ask the Minister for Transport if the CIE group has been instructed to ensure that timetables of its constituent companies are integrated to allow ease of transfer between bus and rail services; the steps which have been taken to ensure same; his views on whether the CIE group of companies should compete with each other or complement each other's services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7921/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The scheduling of timetables is a day-to-day operational matter for the CIE companies and, in the case of Luas, the RPA. CIE and its subsidiary companies and the RPA, in line with their statutory mandate and the Government's commitment to an integrated transport system, seek to ensure that services are integrated and aligned to complement each other and to best meet customer needs. There are a number of locations, for example, where bus services provided by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann directly complement and feed into the rail services provided by Iarnród Éireann, for example DART feeder buses, and buses serving Heuston Station and other railway stations across the railway network.