Mr. Tim Gaston:

The Leap card scheme has been extended across most of the country but there are still some sections where we simply have not had the funding to put the equipment onto the buses. For the Leap card to work, every bus must have a Leap card reading machine and it has not been possible to fund Bus Éireann to provide that across its entire fleet. All of the regional cities and many of the rural areas of the country are now covered by the Leap scheme, as well as all of the eastern region where Bus Éireann provides commuter services into Dublin.