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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (13 Feb 2024)
Colm Burke: ...past number of years and there is a growing demand. As recently as last night I had a meeting with a number of parents. They are concerned because of 16 children only five are able to get school transport when all 16 should be getting it. Their concern is that if we want to cater for all of the children, there would have to be an increase in the number of places and buses available. My...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Services (13 Feb 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I will talk specifically about school transport for those with disabilities. There seems to be some sort of anomaly. I will just give a quick example. There was a family in Dundalk that applied for a school in Dundalk with an ASD unit but there was no room. They went to one in a rural post-primary school. They then failed to qualify for transport on the basis that one of the schools with...