Manus Boyle (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I rise to talk about three schools in Donegal which are all located adjacent to the N56. The first school is St. Naul's National School, Keeloges, which is a national school off the N56. There is a problem there in the mornings and the evenings with traffic going to and from the school. They are trying to get back onto a main road, something it is very hard for people to do with the speed of the traffic coming. It is an accident waiting to happen.

The second school is Dunkineely National School. I raised the issue of traffic calming measures for Dunkineely National School the first day I spoke on the Order of Business. It is going on maybe two years now. I would like an update from the TII. Every question I ask comes back with the response that they are working on a report. That is no good. We need to see action on this.

The third school is Killaghtee National School, just down the road from Dunkineely National School. There is a very dangerous junction there too. It is not so bad in the morning, when the drivers turn left, but going home in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, everyone has to cross the main road. I would like the TII to do an urgent report on that stretch of road from Inver Bridge down as far as Bruckless, to see what can be done to safeguard our children going to and coming from school. Like my colleague, Senator Nelson Murray, has said, we need to get the safe schools scheme back up and working. It was a great scheme and it worked well in Donegal. It is something we need to get back up and going again.