Ms Anne Graham:

The NTA would have information about the changes to licensed services and if there were any amendments to licences. That information would be available but the assessment behind that rests with the operators. As it is their commercial business, they are not obliged to give that information to us, nor do we seek it. The NTA pays a subsidy towards the subsidised contracted services that we have with Bus Éireann so if there are any changes to those services, the NTA must approve them and then we would monitor very closely, with the operator, the changes in costs, revenue, and passenger numbers on those services.