Ms Anne Graham:

It is like any other service that one procures in an open market. It is like the Luas services which are procured openly and for which Transdev Ireland has been successful in being awarded the contracts. What the companies make in profit is a matter for them because they are private companies. What we do is test the market. When one engages in a public procurement process one is seeking the market price in terms of service delivery. At the end of the five-year contract period we are obliged to go to the market again. Whatever the tender price is at that stage, I imagine Go-Ahead Ireland will be interested in tendering, as will other operators, to operate the services.