Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

I thank the Minister of State for her reply. If she has any further light to shed on the issue, I would appreciate a description of the nature of the discussions which have taken place, given that a number of fatal and non-fatal accidents have occurred over the past year. I would like to be assured that a dialogue is taking place between the two Departments. I need to know, for example, that the Minister is fighting vociferously for a more stringent system of testing for school buses in particular, given the demographic and the youth of the children being carried by the buses. I have seen responses by the Minister for Transport, Deputy Cullen, on the independent review being carried within Bus Éireann on the management, operation and maintenance of its own and contract buses. Will this review be general for all buses or will there be a separate review for school buses? If so, what additional areas will be examined?

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