Mr. Gavan O'Leary:

I thank the Acting Chair. As I said in my opening remarks, we are open to taking on board the feedback we get. Certainly we hear what she is saying. We regard this as an evolving process where there will be other indicators brought to bear and into future publications.

Mr. Whelan has referred to the brief we got and some of the constraints there were in how we presented the data we have. We are not in any way closed to that and we are open to taking on board the feedback we have received today and in writing in what we present.

On the school transport review, as I said, I hear what the Deputy is saying. From the point of view of an official in the Department, this is the process that has been under way and my understanding is that the Departments of Transport and the Environment, Climate and Communications have been represented on the steering group as part of the school transport review. There is an effort to try to take the broader view across the various policy agendas and to see where school transport has a role to play, in urban, suburban and more rural areas, in terms of its operation.