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

Michael Moynihan: The School Transport Scheme is a significant national operation, managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Youth, transporting over 173,000 children daily to primary and post-primary schools at a cost of €512 million in 2024. A school transport ticket is issued specifically to provide a seat on a dedicated school service or, in some cases, on scheduled...

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. Over 148,000 mainstream tickets have issued for the 2025/26 school year, which is already almost 5% more than the total tickets issued for the full 2024/25 school year. Unfortunately, difficulties have arisen in a number of locations, specifically in...

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 has reported that unfortunately, for a small number of families who were issued a ticket for the 2025/26 school year, difficulties have arisen in some localities with a small number of contracted services. In some cases, these services...

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

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 916 and 920 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. In working to develop a more inclusive education system, we want to support students to attend their local mainstream...

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

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 917, 919 and 921 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. At present, there are four special schools, and fourteen special classes attached to mainstream schools to support...

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 has advised that a ticket issued to this pupil on their requested route and they should have now received it. However, if there are any further issues they can contact the Bus Éireann call centre at 0818 919 910.

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. Both the Department and Bus Éireann are very conscious of the challenges faced by parents awaiting transport for students with special educational needs. Bus Éireann are required to tender services in line with procurement guidelines and are...

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 nothing has changed with regards to the timetable below on route B1726 for the 2025/26 school year. It remains the same as the last school year. They have also advised that there is a new operator for the service.

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. With reference to the school referred to, Bus Éireann local office have confirmed there is no change to any route for this school other than a new contractor. Bus Éireann further advised that there was an issue on day one which has now been...

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. With reference to the school referred to, Bus Éireann local office have confirmed there is no change to any route for this school other than a new contractor. Bus Éireann further advised that there was an issue on day one which has now been...

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. The purpose of the 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. It is made up of the Mainstream scheme at Primary and...

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 has advised that the pupil referred to by the Deputy has since been assigned to a pick up point 2.3 km from home.

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 has advised that they have arranged for bus tickets to be issued to the address referred to by the Deputy in the details supplied.

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. The purpose of the scheme is to provide transport for children living remotely from their nearest school. Under the current terms of the scheme, children are eligible for transport at post-primary level where they reside not less than 4.8 kilometres...

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

Michael Moynihan: 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 for their attention and direct reply. Deputies are also welcome to raise such queries with the NCSE directly through their dedicated Oireachtas query line at . The NCSE advise that sufficient special education...

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. Under the current terms of the School Transport Schemes, children are eligible for transport at primary level where they reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from and are attending their nearest national school, as determined by the department/Bus...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (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. 407 new special classes have been sanctioned for the 2025/26 school year. Of these 103 are in County Dublin, 81 at primary and 22 at post-primary level. One of these new classes...

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

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 943, 944 and 945 together. My department and the National Council Special Education (NCSE) identify the need for special educational provision with consideration to demographical and statistical data and in regard to an areas existing school provision and future capability. In addition, part of the forward planning process as to where new classes,...

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

Michael Moynihan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an appropriate education is a priority for this Government. It is also a key priority for me, my department and for the National Council for Special Education (NCSE). The vast majority of children with special educational needs are supported to attend mainstream classes with their peers. Where children with more complex needs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Michael Moynihan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 947, 948, 949, 950 and 951 together. The position of the Department of Education is that all pupils who are enrolled in a school should attend school for the full day. Where this is not possible for exceptional circumstances this is known as a reduced school day. A commitment was made to ensure robust data collection on the use of reduced school days and...