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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (20 Apr 2016)

Damien English: My Department in conjunction with the National Transport Agency Office, has not carried out an analysis of the effect of traffic congestion on every school in the country as described by the Deputy. Given that 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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (20 Apr 2016)

Damien English: My Department does not directly audit the Bus Éireann inspector's charges. Bus Éireann has advised that for 2014 and prior years the audit opinion provided by Bus Éireann's external auditors states that the financial information of Bus Éireann's School Transport Scheme, which includes a charge in respect of School Transport Inspectors, is prepared, in all material...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (20 Apr 2016)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 406 and 407 together. My Department does not directly audit or review the Bus Éireann maintenance charge. Reviews of Bus Éireann's maintenance systems and procedures are conducted by Pricewaterhousecoopers, CIE Group Internal Audit and the Bus Éireann Audit Review Group which includes members of the Board of Bus Éireann.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (20 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Resource Persons are employed in Youthreach Centres and have their own separate salary scale and terms and conditions. There is no incremental credit scheme in place for Resource Persons.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: I wish to advise the Deputy that Special Schools funded by my Department are intended to cater for children and young persons with special educational needs from 4 years until the end of the school year in which they reach their 18th year. At that point, the Department of Health/Health Service Executive assumes direct responsibility for young adults with special educational needs. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Bus Éireann has provided written confirmation that the funds referred to by the Deputy are used exclusively for the school transport scheme. In addition, the Bus Éireann School Transport Accounts which are audited each year by independent auditors are available on my Department's website at www.education.ie

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Expenditure (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Bus Éireann has advised that information requested is only available from 2006 and that it will be sent directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined below. 1. The total number of children carried from 2010 to 2015 was as follows: School Year Total Pupils 2010 123993 2011 113015 2012 112463 2013 114063 2014 112577 2015 113892 2. The amount paid by the Department on the annual Statement of Account from 2010 to 2014 was as follows: Account 2014 Account 2013 Account 2012...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: The specific figures referred to by the Deputy are contained in the Report of the Value for Money Review of the School Transport Scheme. The full report is available on my Department's website at www.education.ie Bus Éireann has advised that the approximate mileage for the large bus cohort only, rounded to the nearest half million kilometres, is as follows: Mileage 2008 2009 2010...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: The purpose of my Department's School Transport Schemes 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 Schemes children are eligible for school transport where they reside not less than 3.2 or 4.8 kilometres from and are attending their nearest national school or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Changes to my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme were announced in December 2010 by the then Government as part of measures contained in Budget 2011 and derived from recommendations contained in the Value for Money review of the scheme. The changes announced covered the uniform application of the distance eligibility criterion, the cessation of the Closed/Central School Rule (CSR),...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 4.8 kms from and are attending their nearest education centre as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann has advised that children residing in the Johnstown Bridge area are not eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 4.8 kms from and are attending their nearest education centre as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann has advised that children residing in the Johnstown Bridge area are not eligible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (14 Apr 2016)

Damien English: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 4.8 kilometres from and are attending their nearest post primary school/education centre as determined by the Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann has advised that the child in question is eligible for...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Damien English: So does Sinn Féin in the North.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Damien English: 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 the Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann has advised that some children who reside on Sherkin Island are currently availing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (6 Apr 2016)

Damien English: I propose to take Questions Nos. 653 and 654 together. Bus Éireann has advised that the level of detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available. In this regard I have asked Bus Éireann to forward the information directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Consultancy Contracts Data (6 Apr 2016)

Damien English: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department did not commission any new consultants' or experts' reports on school transport in the past six years. Details of all consultancy payments by the Department for the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 are available on my Department's website at www.education.ie. Details for the years 2015 and 2016 will be published in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Apr 2016)

Damien English: My Department received an application for school transport for the child referred to by the Deputy on the 22nd March 2016. The child in question is eligible for school transport under the terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme for Children with Special Educational Needs. In this regard Bus Éireann has been requested to report on the transport arrangements necessary to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Damien English: In order to comply annually with European Union public procurement law obligations Bus Éireann did publish a list of awards for the First Call for Competition for 2011, 2013, 2014 & 2015 on www.etenders.gov.ie. The list of awards for 2012 was omitted in error but has now been uploaded to the etenders website and is available.