John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As I indicated, 114,000 children are being carried on school transport twice a day, every day, and 10,000 children with special needs are being carried. I invited representatives of all parties to meet me in recent months to initiate a review. The previous review was carried out two years ago and it ends next September. We have received submissions from representatives of all parties. The review is being collated at present and it will be ready in the next couple of weeks. I will issue the findings of the review to each party, which can come back again to me on the basis of what we discussed. I believe Deputy Nolan was at the meeting where the matter was discussed.

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