Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, having given a commitment in February 2001, the [i]status quo[/i] will be maintained in regard to school transport to Salesian College, Pallaskenry from the Limerick city catchment area pending a review of the arrangements and the catchment boundary situation; and if the transport service to students who applied for the first year in 2005 from the city catchment area will be granted. [26264/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Under the terms of the post-primary school transport scheme, a pupil is eligible for transport is he or she resides 4.8 km or more from his or her local post-primary education centre, that is, the centre serving the catchment area in which he or she lives. In addition, an eligible pupil may be allowed the concession of transport, known as catchment boundary transport, to a centre other than his or her local centre, provided there is room on the bus to that centre after all eligible pupils have been accommodated.

Pupils who reside within the Limerick city catchment area may apply for catchment boundary transport to Pallaskenry. The decision in regard to the post-primary centre concerned was made following a full assessment of all relevant factors and there is no proposal to reverse it.