Ms Bernie McNally:

I thank the Deputy for asking that question. We would say that there has been full implementation of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. In fact, we have gone even further. For example, we introduced the service-level agreement that was recommended but we have since replaced that with an even stronger governance structure of a performance-delivery agreement and an oversight arrangement. There are very strong governance arrangements in place now. We actually increased the resources in that unit so that we could improve the operations on the governance side while also looking at reform, implementing the review and so on. There are monthly meetings with detailed minutes for them now. Detailed financial and operational data is provided by Bus Éireann. We got an external person to help us to develop a template for what exactly we should be looking at in the financial returns and the process now is fairly forensic. We have an accountant working on the team who looks at these on a monthly basis. We believe that everything is being implemented.