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

That is something we should support as a committee.

On school transport, no one will be more familiar than the witnesses with the challenges that arose out of the increased demand. There was a commitment in the budget that extra funding would be provided for people who had previously been accommodated on the school transport scheme on a concessionary basis. We have been told by Bus Éireann regional officers that the real constraint is around mainly bus drivers but also buses. There was a hope that when the coach tourism season quietened down there might be an opportunity there. Have the witnesses or their representative groups been contacted about that? Is there any scope or movement in that regard?