Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I, too, ask the Tánaiste to intervene for the people of Ballineen who have been left hanging while waiting for school transport places for their children. What plans are in place to address this debacle? The school transport system is a debacle. Across west Cork, some students got tickets who were not allowed on the bus, some students who should have got tickets did not, and we have many cases of students who qualified for tickets and yet their siblings did not. Some students have places on buses, while their parents are behind those buses driving their siblings to school by car. The situation is ridiculous. Plans must be put in place for next year, but I put it to the Tánaiste that the situation in Ballineen needs to be resolved in the meantime.

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