Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth

School Transport Scheme: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I recognise the regional manager in that area too. I flag this area. There are hotspots where these issues arise, largely because of the nature of where people are travelling to school and have done so traditionally for whatever reasons. These would include routes such as from Laytown and Bettystown to Drogheda, north County Meath to O'Carolan college, Moynalty, Skryne, Rathfeigh and Tara into Navan and Stamullin to Balbriggan. I am expecting calls from July onwards in relation to those areas, or certainly in early August.

I looked at the review. It said that from this September the distances were supposed to change. I want to drill down into this issue. To be honest, I wonder what the point of the review was that we waited so long for, when we are seeing so little. Like others said, I am a fan of this fantastic scheme and its potential to deliver for the environment, communities and people. Can we get some more details, outside the generalities of challenges, of why this is not happening this year?

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