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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Minister, we cannot allow officials to come in. I do not want to set a precedent for the officials to come in-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and the Deputy. I call Deputy Conway-Walsh, to be followed by Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I will allow the Minister to respond after Deputy Nolan's contribution.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Before we bring in the non-members of the committee, I know Senator Flynn still has to come in. I also have some questions myself. The school transport issue has dominated the headlines both locally and nationally for the month of August and into September. Every town's secondary school has been greatly affected and the students thereby. It is definitely not an isolated incident. It has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: The Minister has given that context already and I am happy to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Other members wish to come in. I have asked a direct question. It is not that I accept or do not accept something. I am giving what I have been getting from my constituents. I have asked the Minister a direct question and it is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: -----whether a student on a bus without a ticket is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: No, I will not. It would be totally unfair of me to give that information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I am asking if a student who is on the bus without a ticket is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I am asking if that person is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: What the Minister is telling me is that she does not know the answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: I want the Minister to answer my question on whether a person is insured or uninsured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: That is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: It is not up to me to police this. The Minister is responsible for what I would describe as a mess. She has made school transport free and I have said that as part of that, there should have been a nominal fee of perhaps €100 or €150. In such circumstances, I do not believe any of the students I have been talking about would have applied for a ticket. On the review-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: There is a financial burden on the people who did not get concessionary tickets.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: On the review, does it depend on the Minister securing additional funding in the budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Paul Kehoe: On the review the Minister is doing, is part of the outcome dependent on any additional funding the Minister can get in the budget?