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

I raise the issue of school transport. Since the Dáil resumed, it has been a bone of contention with many colleagues around the House. I want to raise in particular Tunnyduff National School. I am using it as an example. It is a rural school and there are 42 kids to this day without their school transport. The Tánaiste and I both know that 42 kids in a rural school is a significant proportion to be without their school transport. It is two classrooms. Joe Finnegan has spent the last three weeks highlighting many other schools around the constituency that are in the same position. I am very mindful of kids who have special needs whose school transport is still not in place. Could the Tánaiste, please, put everything behind the Minister, Deputy Foley? She and her staff have done an incredible job to try to resolve these routes. I ask the Tánaiste to make sure she has every resource available to continue that work.

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