Ms Anne Graham:

Yes but, Deputy, we have at least 290 contracts throughout the country. They are the providers or operators, including Kerry Flyer which is an operator. They have all the licences associated with providing public transport services. In good faith, they tendered for a contract related to rural transport services in 2009 and have been operating the services since 2009 to deliver rural transport services in the Kerry region. I do not think there has been any question about the services that they have been providing. They have been very good quality services to the public of County Kerry.

A different procurement has happened related to a different service that has nothing to do with the rural transport services that are provided by Kerry Flyer. It is not appropriate for us to open up an investigation into funding that we provide related to rural transport services because it is funding that has been delivered to them over a number of years to provide specific rural transport services.