Ms Aoife Conduit:

As the Secretary General said, we are piloting an e-ticketing programme and we will be looking to roll it out nationally. Unfortunately it will not be for the 2024-2025 school year. It will continue to be a pilot. It will give us real-time information on how many children use the service. Prior to a particularly tragic accident a number of years ago we overallocated tickets for the number of seats. Now we have seat belts on every bus and contracted bus and it is one child per seat. This has to be the case.