Mr. Stephen Kent:

On the drivers, our issue is that, no matter what we do, we have four studies, including one that came out late last year that was commissioned by the Department of Transport and the RSA. The problem is that the report clearly says that we would be derelict in our duty to operate this service safely given the level of risk that we would have to accommodate. Lines in that report say that the evidence of risk of crashes rises markedly over these ages, that there are increased levels of multiple illnesses and that there are challenges in managing the significant burden of distraction in school bus environments. These are all things the board is reading in expanding the scheme.