Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I can assure the Deputy that there are no plans whatsoever to tender for more than 10% of the services in the future. The current plans are to do this, and God knows this has taken an extremely long time already. We are only talking about a few routes when we are doing this, and we will review it to see how it works. If it does not work, I am happy to come back to this House when it is operating and say it is not working. That is exactly what we will do, but it is an experiment which is well worth taking. There will be no redundancies as a result of this particular project. Employees are free to transfer to the new operator if they wish.

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