Dáil debates
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
3:30 pm
Johnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
As the Taoiseach is aware, hundreds of children were turned down for discretionary tickets for school buses for this year alone and my own constituency of Wexford is no exception. For example, Mairéad has two children, Aoife and Michael, who have been travelling for the last five years to the same school. Aoife has had open heart surgery and lung surgery. Mairéad will have to work fewer hours in order to bring her children to school. Anna, who is a teacher, travels 30 km to work each day. It is not possible for her to collect and drop off her daughter to school each day. Her daughter has travelled for the last three years on the same bus. Then we have Ben, who had a brain tumour as a child and has mobility problems which he has surmounted and overcome. His position in a mainstream school is very important to Ben and his family but he has been refused a discretionary ticket. I ask the Taoiseach to look further into supplying additional school transport as there are many cases like this replicated across the country and in many parts of rural Wexford.
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