Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The assistant secretary in charge of land transport would be the appropriate person. There is a big overlap. We all have issues in regard to school transport, in particular constituency issues, and we all know the way in which it is structured. I have the bizarre scenario where some people living beside me are being told they have to go to school in Clare, although that is a side issue. The issue here is that Bus Éireann without school transport is not Bus Éireann. To be honest, we could be looking at a completely different scenario for Bus Éireann. There is also the whole overlap in regard to rural transport schemes and the connotations in that regard, and there are many other issues. I do not see how we can go through a special report without having representatives of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport here. That Department is over Bus Éireann, which provides the service, so the overlap is huge. We would be one leg of the stool short.