Ms Anne Graham:

When any public body tenders for a particular service, it gets a price for that service. In this case, it would have been a single price. It would not have been divided into different aspects. It would probably have been a daily price for the delivery of a particular rural transport service. We would not interrogate where that money is going in relation to the group and we would not be expected to do so. It was an open public tender. At that time in 2009, a price was put forward in a tender for the delivery of a rural transport service. We would have accepted the price for that service and we pay the price for it through Kerry Community Transport Limited, which manages the local office in Kerry. We are required to ensure there has been a public competition relating to the provision of a service and the funding matches the tender price for that service. That is the extent to which we look at the costs.