Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The smaller bundles of routes will be managed in isolation and could be handled by three, four or five different companies. There will be regulatory issues surrounding the costs of checking fleets and other associated costs, and the State must carry out those. At present it only has to do that for one company, Bus Éireann. If there is a multiplicity of smaller bundles, there will be a multiplicity of operators and work to be done to ensure all buses are up to the standard. Are there additional potential costs?