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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools annually throughout the country covering over 100 million...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools annually throughout the country covering over 100 million...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Information and Communications Technology (27 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: High Performance Computing (HPC) services include the provision and support of high-end computing resources, data analytics, education and training services to industry and higher education institutions. Globally, supercomputers are playing an ever increasing and critically important role in a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields of relevance to cloud technologies,...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport Eligibility (28 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: I thank the Senator for raising the matter. School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015-16 school year, approximately 114,000 children, including almost 10,000 children with special needs, were transported on a daily basis to schools nationally. That is 114,000 to school and 114,000 from school. The 10,000 children...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (29 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of my Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (29 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from and are attending their nearest national school as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann. The children in question are not eligible for school transport as their home address is less than 3.2 kilometres from the school in...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (29 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (29 Sep 2016)
John Halligan: The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary school transport scheme children are eligible for school transport where they reside not less than 4.8 kilometres from and are attending their...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Appeals (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: The School Transport Appeals Board is independent of my Department. The Deputy will be aware that the role of the Board is, broadly, to examine appeals against decisions made by, or on behalf of, the Department of Education and Skills regarding the provision of school transport services and/or grant-aid under the terms of the School Transport Schemes. In 2015 and 2016 no appeals were...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: The costs to my Department of school transport provision for the years in question are set out in the table. Year Amount 2012 €168,463,923 2013 €170,749,769 2014 €172,080,676 2015 €172,961,930
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Review (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of the Department. This scheme has been in existence since 1967, and is based on accounting arrangements put in place in 1975. An investigation was launched by the Commission in 2007 after receiving a complaint that, among other activities, alleged unlawful State aid was being provided to Bus Éireann in respect of school...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (4 Oct 2016)
John Halligan: School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department. During the 2015/16 school year in the region of 114,000 children, including some 10,000 children with special educational needs, were transported in approximately 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres...