Mr. Owen Keegan:

I think there was a second factor. Initially the penetration by private operators was seen as a difficulty. Then the view was that it did not really matter if the private operators were in the market if we had the power to direct where the waste would go. All the indications in terms of public policy were that the State would go to a competition for the market as opposed to competition in the market and that we would have that power. As it turned out, the Panda judgment, while it was not specifically about that issue, raised concerns as to whether we did have the power to direct the waste. It was conceivable that we would have retained control even if the actual collection had gone out to private operators.