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 Jen CumminsJen Cummins (Dublin South Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

As a new TD, I will probably learn how these things go. I probably should not have said, "Oh that is grand, I will get back to you". Could what was said about the primary schools and the patronage not being an issue for school transport be explained a little bit more? I ask because what I was explaining was that there are two primary schools, one of which is an Educate Together school and the other is a community national school. Bus Éireann is saying it is necessary to go to the closest one, which is the community national school, but the parents concerned want their children to go to the Educate Together school. Is it that it should not be this way at the primary school or-----

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