Sir, – Bus Éireann can confirm that none of the recent supplementary funding to the CIÉ Group is for our Expressway inter-city services (Editorial, July 30th). Our Expressway services are operated on a purely commercial basis and receive no State funding. Furthermore, as previously reported (Business, July 27th), Bus Éireann will not be receiving any of the supplementary funding for the operation of any of its services. Claims to the contrary by the Coach Tourism and Transport Council, which represents less than five per cent of the country’s private bus operators, are untrue. – Yours, etc,