Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school bus transport will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties which the lack of a bus ticket is causing this person. [26094/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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For the purpose of the post-primary education scheme, the country has been divided into catchment areas, each of which has its own post-primary centre. Recognised post-primary pupils who live at least 4.8 km from the post-primary centre serving the catchment area in which they reside are eligible for transport to that centre under the scheme.

Eligible pupils who wish to attend a post-primary centre other than the centre serving the catchment area in which they reside may be allowed transport from within the catchment boundary of the centre being attended, subject to there being a spare seat available on the service and provided that no additional State cost is incurred.

The pupil referred to by the Deputy does not reside in the catchment area of the school being attended and has applied for catchment boundary transport to this school. Bus Éireann has advised my Department that a ticket will issue to the pupil concerned in the near future.