Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am next on the roster, and I have a few questions. At the outset, I thank the witnesses. I will just mention Stephanie. Do people know who she is? I will not mention her surname, but she is outstanding in the Department's Limerick office covering County Clare as well. I think she is tuned in, so if she is watching, we appreciate everything. She is working flat out, and we really appreciate everything she does. She went beyond the call of duty for parents and elected representatives last summer.

I want to pick up on that point because a lot of what Stephanie and her colleagues had to deal with last summer was the pilot scheme in Sixmilebridge. How much did that cost? It seemed to me, as a public representative, that Bus Éireann and the Department had to make this work. Sometimes, when a policy has been decided and piloted and it has gone so far down a road that it has to work and it has to be proven to work but it is then pulled at the eleventh hour, it may as well have never been tried. As the pilot scheme was being unrolled, it looked to me that the manpower, resources and money to make it work were colossal. Could someone tell me what the monetary cost of that pilot scheme in Sixmilebridge was?