Billy Hann

I think you only have to try and get someone for the house, you know how difficult that is.

It's the same with mechanics for Dublin Bus.

We've had to go to the Philippines and other areas to try and get full-time mechanics.

We've about 60 Filipino mechanics in over the last two years to try and fill the sort of demand for our services.

goes back to the same question i said earlier pat like you know change is hard for people and when you know you're getting a service from a particular point to another point on a daily business suddenly not there it's a problem and an issue for you but the network is designed for the greater good it's designed to connect more people to more places more efficiently and it's doing that

And I think it goes back to what I said earlier, the National Transport Authority, when they're designing the route network, they're looking at everything.

They're looking at the connections, they're looking at the spines, they're looking at the radials and what's going to feed into it.

They're looking at what other services may be available across intermodal areas.

So they're looking at in totality rather than just one single route and one single area.

So they have the big picture.

They've come up with a design.

By and large, it works well.

We do take feedback, as I said, from customers when it's not working well and we adjust accordingly.

It's probably the biggest headache that we have with regards to providing a reliable and a punctual service, Pat, is not having dedicated bus corridors.

Bus Connect is looking at putting in 12 dedicated bus corridors, which can't come quick enough as far as I'm concerned.

With regards to the current ones that are there, they are infringed by motorists on a regular basis, so we need more enforcement from that perspective.

Our vehicles are running on average around 16 kilometres an hour.

At peak time, they're running at 14.

At quieter times, 20 kilometres an hour.

We need to fix that.