Ms Anne Graham:

That is right, but if they did not operate in accordance with their licence, we would take enforcement action regarding that activity. If they make a commercial decision to change their licence, which results in reducing the frequency of the services or the numbers of stops, we cannot force them to operate on a non-commercial basis.

I will give the response on the tendering of the services. It is not Dublin Bus that is responsible for tendering the services. The National Transport Authority, NTA, is tendering the 10% of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann services. As we are in the middle of a public procurement process I would not like to comment further on that because I do not want to undermine that public procurement process. However, when that process is over, I would be happy to outline to the committee the outcomes of that tendering process.