Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does Deputy O'Rourke wish to come in again? I have one final question for the Minister, as I do not know if Deputy Farrell is here. The Minister casually mentioned a couple of years ago, and we are not trying to catch him out, a lovely example last year in Switzerland. Swiss postal vans have what is called a crew cab, where it goes around the villages with all the bags of mail in the back. They also have, however, a facility to pick up elderly people to bring them to the shop. It is kind of a second-tier bus service but not as reliable as a scheduled service. It will get up to the house when it gets there, but there is an option of taking a lift with the local postman or postwoman. The Minister gave an example of an experience he had of it and saw how well it worked. Has there ever been consideration of that in Ireland? Again, speaking to those rural communities I have mentioned a few times, it would add a layer of connectivity that they do not currently have. I will not be throwing any more curveballs after that.