Ms Anne Graham:

I will comment on the first proposal because we are not responsible for the second proposal. It is not possible to compensate for what might be public service obligations in a commercial service under current legislation. One can have either a license service, which is fully commercial with no State subsidy, or a contracted service. Those are the regulations and legislation that we have. It would be considered state aid if we were to compensate. We would have to make that available across all operations, including all license services, which could come at considerable cost to the State.