Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I referred to the balance between social policy and cost but that is also an example of where we would be creating 20 empty seats a couple of days a week on a bus. Children may choose not to take the school bus; they may take a public bus and pay for it later. The issue is that there is a public service. Whether there is space on it, I do not know. The issue is that whether the State should pay for the two seats. The first seat on the school service and the second seat on the public bus, or is it possible to rotate seats so that, potentially, somebody else could use the school bus seat. That is very difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis.