Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

We are leaving the arrangements for school transport in place for the forthcoming school year. Therefore, arrangements for the remote area grant, eligibility, concessionary travel and so on remain the same. We will have to work through the complexities of implementing the health advice with Bus Éireann.

We are committed to a review. We had a review of the school transport scheme under way, which we are in the process of commencing. Many of the issues mentioned by the Deputy fall to be part of the review and that has been raised in the programme for Government. We will have to consider the terms of reference for the review that we have in place, having regard to the programme for Government, to seek to work further on school transport.