Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

A significant part of the expenditure by the Department of Education and Skills goes to Bus Éireann, which provides the bulk of the service and effectively manages the large-scale mobilisation. There is some other provision through grants and so on to individual parents for individual children. However, a substantial part of the spend is with Bus Éireann and it actually forms a substantial part of the turnover of Bus Éireann in the year.