Mr. Willie Noone:

The tendering process has not yet started even though it has been announced. Regarding the contracts insisting on employees taking over the employment conditions, that is not the case. TUPE is supposed to apply. We believe it applies. It is now in documentation that it will apply. We have members in some private companies. Those companies have said publicly they do not want to employ these people because of the concerns and problems they would bring with them because they would invariably be on better conditions than the employees the companies currently have so they do not want those employees. Our members in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have indicated to us that they have no intention to transfer into a private bus company.