Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have no doubt about that. I was curious when Ms Graham made reference to value for money - it prompted my question - which seemed ludicrous to me.

We spoke earlier about projections and costs. Can Ms Graham provide a comparison figure for what it would have cost if we had continued with Dublin Bus over that five-year period versus the cost of contracting the service to Go-Ahead Ireland? That would show us whether it would have been more costly to have the service run by Dublin Bus. My view is that it is better to keep these services public rather than privatising them.

MetroLink will be a massive infrastructural project. I assume the NTA has some sort of plan as to who will run that service. Will the infrastructure be State owned and the service run by a State company, such as Iarnród Éireann or will it, similar to Luas, be given over to a private company to run?