Mr. Martin Nolan:

To take the Chairman's other point about route 21, we have clearly said this is a route that is in difficulty. There has been a very significant campaign by the company to get passengers in the area to use the route. To quote the Chairman, it has been a case of "use it or lose it". This is in order to generate additional volume. Unfortunately, there has been no additional volume; in fact, it has actually been the reverse. There is a need for services to be supported by passengers if they are to continue.

On the point about competition, Expressway operates in a competitive environment and it is not possible to share our plans. Having said that, we are certainly open to discussion on the rest of our PSO network in terms of how we can fill any gap as a result of the decisions we make on the commercial network.