Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The NTA issues the licences. It is the agency tasked with ensuring that this is managed. If the NTA wants somebody to operate a route, should it not tell the operator that it can operate the route but that it needs to accommodate people with disabilities and older people - individuals for whom the scheme was designed in the first instance? Should that not be a precondition? If operators decided to take the NTA up on the offer, well and good, and if not, they do not.