Síle de Valera (Clare, Fianna Fail)

The situation has changed since 2001. It has been clear since 2003 that change was coming about because of the positions of placements within schools. The central applications facility is now in place. The reason for having this service until now in Limerick was because the parents could not find places for their children within the Limerick area. This is no longer the case due to the central applications facility. We are now giving the opportunity to children already on that bus to continue their education using the bus facility. However, it will no longer continue for first-year students because it is an anomaly. It is a unique situation made for Limerick given the circumstances that exist nowhere else in the country. That situation has now changed and the matter will revert to what occurs everywhere else in the country.