Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to make a very clear point. I raised this with the senior Minister, in fairness, and he made the same point. Bus operators the length and breadth of the country asked me how he does not understand the difference in what we are saying.

The Department of Education, with Bus Éireann, operates the State school bus transport system. I am talking about school bus operators who operate outside of that system and carry in the region of 60,000 children a day to school. They are falling between the cracks. I know I am out of time, but I ask the Minister of State to take that information on board, bring it back to the Department and give it some real consideration.