Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)

I have a question relating to ghost buses and the carrot and stick approach. Does the service level agreement with some of the private operators include enough sticks to ensure that ghost buses are limited as much as possible? I know this happens a lot. Deputy Currie mentioned west Dublin. I know students from Kerry who get a bus home from the University of Limerick, UL, on a Friday evening. The bus often disappears from the website or app. Are there enough sticks in the service level agreement to prevent that happening? Does the NTA acknowledge it is a problem?