Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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That would be the ideal but of course if there is very small demand there is not much point in having competition and having two loss-making operators which might be the result of that. I am in favour, and all recent Ministers have been in favour of competition. That is fine but not to have competition where the route is making a loss. That would not make sense and the private operators would not do it anyway.