Mr. Stephen Kent:

I apologise if something like that happened. I only became aware of it myself a couple of days ago in preparation for today because I saw that correspondence came in from the Deputy's office. First, we will make ourselves available to meet the Deputy, no problem, but what I understand is that it was to do with the emails. We have one dedicated email address for reps of buseireann.ie, for all school transport queries and any of the queries come in through there. Then we have another email address where the road passenger queries typically come in. I suspect something has happened here and the queries the Deputy had on the school transport were not picked up. I know he has asked for a meeting. I think we have gone back to his office to see if we can get a day with him. He was looking for Friday and we are constrained for Friday but if we could meet him on Monday or Tuesday we will work and engage with him directly on that.