Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I want to return briefly to the subject of school transport and an issue highlighted in the special report in 2017. This is spare capacity in the fleet. There are people who have the bus ticket but use it a day a week because that is the day they do not have the car or somebody is off or whatever else it is. I am not aware of it from any of the bus routes that I know. Are people tracking this data usefully? Can we see how many kids are on the bus Monday morning, Tuesday morning or Wednesday morning? Is this fed in and do we analyse trends? Can we maximise our fleet capacity based on this data?