Mr. Brendan Walsh:

What I can share is that Applus has the right to indexation within the contact, which may not move the price. It can receive a fee increase but the authority will maintain the price as it is. The levy that Applus pays to the authority for the purpose of road safety initiatives compensates for any increase we would pay to the contractor. Unfortunately, these are commercial contractual arrangements that I have no control over.

On pricing for the public, we have discussed the matter with the Department of Transport. We have had some discussions with our colleagues. A decision has been made that we will not be moving with the increase in our pricing for our services because, to be honest, everybody is very mindful of the inflationary times in which we live.