Ms Bernie McNally:

I will ask my colleague, Ms Conduit, to speak on this. We do not have all of the data we would like to have. To know this we would need an e-ticketing system throughout the country and the entire scheme. Bus Éireann has piloted this but it has not been ruled out. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh knows that after eligible parents apply and pay they are reasons they do not use it all of the time but we cannot give their seat away to somebody else because we might end up with buses being oversubscribed. This causes a safety issue.