Mr. Ciaran McCaffrey:

I thank the Deputy for the question. On the rural transport issue, I am from the periphery of some of the areas the Deputy mentioned. We know the impact transport has in terms of accessibility to education. My colleague Ms Nugent referred to our surveys in her opening statement.

We did engage extensively with the NTA in trying to map some of those transport routes. It is a piece of work we got so far on. It is planned that we will further develop it in the next iteration of the survey in the coming years. It is definitely something we see great value in and would like to progress.