Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We sound like a broken record in the Dáil today speaking about school transport. Of course the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Government are to be complimented on the scheme itself but it has left many families who had been concessionary ticket holders without transport to school.

I will give the Tánaiste one example of a family that have been loyal Bus Éireann users for the past 15 years, have always paid for their ticket and now they have no transport to school. The mum is a carer and the father is self-employed. Their daily lives have been thrown into disarray without school transport. I ask the Tánaiste to see to it that the Minister has the ability to give the capacity for all of those concessionary ticket holders, who are historically users and are dependent on their school bus to have a way to school.

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