Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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The Road Safety Authority is the body that recommended we remove the medical requirement. Ms McNally should not tell me to read research if she is not reading it herself. This is contrary evidence. In this Department, two reports seem to say conflicting things about the same issue, and Ms McNally is trying to justify this now for the Department’s own inaction. A total of 46 children in Kilmore and almost 50 between Gorey and Ferns have no mode of transport to school for next year. I ask Ms McNally to try to resolve that; it is her job.