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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Bus Éireann has advised that a late application for school transport for this pupil was received on 5 September 2025 for the 25/26 school year. The pupil in question is not eligible for transport as he is attending his fourth nearest Post Primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Bus Éireann has advised that a late application for school transport for this pupil was received on 5 September 2025 for the 25/26 school year. The pupil in question is not eligible for transport as he is attending his fourth nearest Post Primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Under the terms of the School Transport Schemes children are eligible for transport at primary level where they reside not less than 3.2 kms from and are attending their nearest national school, and at post primary level where they reside not less than 4.8...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of special education places. This year the NCSE has sanctioned 407...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is, in the first instance, the primary body responsible for the matter the Deputy has raised. I have forwarded this issue to them...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. The purpose of the scheme is to provide transport for children living remotely from their nearest school. Bus Éireann has advised that this family applied for school transport on the 23rd of July 2025. Bus Éireann has further advised that this pupil can be accommodated on an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Where practicable, and subject to considerations of cost and logistics, routes are planned to avoid an eligible child having to travel more than 3.2 kms to or from a pick-up/set down point or to have travel and waiting times in excess of 1.5 hours per day....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Bus Éireann has advised that the child referred to by the Deputy is eligible for transport and has been issued a ticket for the 2025/26 school year. Bus Éireann has further advised that this pupil can be accommodated on a pick-up point which is approximately 600 metres from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Under the terms of the School Transport Schemes children are eligible for transport at primary level where they reside not less than 3.2 kms from and are attending their nearest national school, and at post primary level where they reside not less than 4.8...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Routes are planned so that, as far as possible, no eligible child will have more than 3.2 kilometres to travel to a pick-up point. Children are generally expected to make their own way, or to be brought to convenient pick-up points along the main route. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. The purpose of the scheme is to provide transport for children living remotely from their nearest school. Bus Éireann has advised that the pupil referred to by the Deputy is eligible for transport as he is attending his nearest Post Primary Centre. They advise that the pupil...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Bus Éireann has advised that the pick up point in question was assessed by the inspector and a new pick up point was added which was deemed to be a safer location for these pupils. This pick up point commenced at the start of the 2025/26 school year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. As the Special Education Teaching allocation model has been in place since 2017 based on a 2014 NCSE report, my Department believed a review of the model was prudent. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 745 and 746 together. This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has responsibility for coordinating and advising on the education provision for children with special educational needs, including the allocation of special needs assistants (SNAs). The NCSE has advised my department that all schools have been informed of their SNA allocation for the 2025/26 school year. The NCSE published SNA allocations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 748, 749 and 750 together. This government is fully committed to supporting children with special educational needs to fulfil their full potential and the Programme for Government makes a number of commitments to deliver on this objective. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is the national agency with responsibility for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 751 and 918 together. At present, there are four special schools, and fourteen special classes attached to mainstream schools to support students with a specific learning disability such as severe dyslexia. These schools and classes are mainly located in our largest urban areas. I want to acknowledge the work they do, however, there is no plan to establish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. Bus Éireann have advised that the family to whom the Deputy refers to, are not eligible for school transport as they are attending the sixth nearest school from where the family reside. However, the family have received concessionary tickets for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: Bus Éireann has advised that the child referred to by the Deputy is not eligible under the terms of the scheme as they reside under the distance criteria. Bus Éireann further advise that there was excess demand for this service and the child referred was not successful in securing a ticket on a main stream service for the 2025/26 school year. Special transport arrangements on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth. To date, over 148,000 tickets have issued for the 2025/26 school year, which is an increase of 5% of tickets issued at the same time last year. Due to the scale of the scheme, the changes as recommended in the review will take time and careful planning...