Michael Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)

We are currently looking at all the information we got by the end of April and the information regarding payment and where we will need to put on buses that we got by last Friday. That work between the Department and Bus Éireann is proceeding at pace because we need to get it done in the next three weeks. We will be talking about it.

I will endeavour to work with the Senator to try to find a resolution to the specific issue she has asked me about. Her points are well made. We will go back under the bonnet to see what the issues with it are. We will work on the figures we have. It will be a number of weeks before everything is in place but we will work to find a satisfactory solution to the challenges and issues the Senator has found. If she liaises with me and my team over the coming weeks, we will work with her to find a solution. If we can find one, we will be very much to the fore in trying to bring it to fruition.