Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

St. Augustine’s in Blackrock is a school for children with additional needs. It caters for children with those needs from as far north of the city as Santry, the many places in between, Wicklow, the Dún Laoghaire area, which is my area, and other areas of south Dublin. The school is still without two buses to take those children to St. Augustine's, those being the one that comes from Santry and the one that comes from Wicklow, the Taoiseach's constituency, because it cannot get bus drivers. I do not know if this is directly connected but is the Taoiseach aware that bus drivers who are certified and who reach the age of 70 are not allowed to drive children to school? That is crazy.

The HSE will allow them to bring people to school. There are bus drivers I know in my area who take children to crèches and other after-school activities but cannot take them to school. It is insane, it is discriminatory and it is madness when we cannot get bus drivers. Can the Taoiseach do something for St. Augustine's to ensure it has school transport for those children to get them to school? Second, will he do away with the bizarre situation whereby people who want to drive buses to take children to school are told they cannot do that once they reach the age of 70. It makes no sense.

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