Mr. Gerry Murphy:

It was raised by the National Bus and Railworkers Union, NBRU, and SIPTU that somehow school transport services were subsidised by the commercial services, which is not true. From audits of the public service obligation, PSO, side, we know the commercial bus services are not subsidising the PSO side. The Department of Education and Skills audits expenditure on school transport and it has published a report on this. A company challenged the award of the school transport contract to Bus Éireann but lost its case in the High Court. It is now taking it to the Supreme Court.