Mr. Jim Meade:

No. Even in the boom times, we were paying for that service. We were paying an annual contribution and the operator was making what it could from it. Post Covid, people wanted to shift all the risk onto the rail company. The kind of numbers that were being suggested were just not tenable with us. However, we used the budget we had to put on the Cork service because that, for us, was the premier route. It is the longest route. It catches Kerry. It catches Limerick. We were getting a decent benefit from it. While using that budget for that, we have also gone back to the market. That allows suppliers to understand what the market is now like, how many people would use it and what the footfall would be, etc. We are currently in the market for a full service but it will come down to a cost factor as to what kind of costs come back. We are all seeing cost inflation in every aspect of life now - it is just what it is - but we hope to be able to put services back on all routes post that procurement process.