Mr. Stephen Kent:

Let me make sure this is captured correctly. The RSA did not say that we are derelict in duty. It produced a report that I believe states, given the risk, there is a concern. What we are trying to do is to be pragmatic here as well. One third of what we deliver through the scheme is delivered by vehicles under eight seats – small public service vehicles. The report of last year was based on the school bus drivers. Examined were all the issues attached to driving a school bus daily. The report does not trivialise anything in relation to this. Somebody might be fit today, and I fully regard them as such. What Bus Éireann is doing is not any different than from what Irish Rail or Dublin Bus is doing. We are all just trying to address a policy.