Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the dispute involving the transport of children to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick has yet to be resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27697/05]

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 if she or he resides 4.8 kilometres or more from her or his local post-primary education centre, that is, the centre serving the catchment area in which she or he lives. In addition, an eligible pupil may be allowed the concession of transport, known as catchment boundary transport, to a centre other than her or his local centre, provided there is room on the bus to that centre after all locally eligible pupils have been catered for.

Certain first-year pupils who reside within the Limerick city catchment area have applied for catchment boundary transport to Pallaskenry. Some have been facilitated to the extent that seats are available on the existing service and are being carried from the city catchment area to Pallaskenry.

The decision in relation to this post-primary centre was made following a full assessment of all relevant factors and there is no proposal to change it.