Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy made a very fair point - and has made it consistently - in respect of the school transport scheme. As the Minister for Education has indicated, she is undertaking a review of school transport. In my view, going back to the issue of climate change, if we want to get people out of cars, it makes sense that we would broaden the remit of the school transport scheme to facilitate people in bringing children to school. When we brought in free second level education in the 1960s, school transport was the key enabler,. We can see the benefits that brought to the nation.

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