Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if free school transport will be sanctioned for persons (details supplied) in County Cork. [11481/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The children referred to by the Deputy in the details supplied are not eligible for free transport to the school in question as they reside nearer to a school that closed and amalgamated. In the case of amalgamations, the national school children for whom the closed national school would have been the nearest, had it remained open, are eligible for transport to the school of amalgamation only.

However, concessionary fare-paying transport to the school referred to in the details may be considered on the condition that the agreement of the board of management of the school of amalgamation is received and provided there is room available on the service to the school after all fully eligible children have been accommodated.