Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

International experience indicates that competitive tendering is beneficial in the context of the provision of subsidised PSO bus services. Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus will both be able to submit bids during the tendering process when it commences in the middle of this year. The two companies in question were paid in excess of €90 million in PSO supports by the taxpayer last year - this amount was over and above passenger fare incomes - in respect of the provision of public bus services.

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