Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 1720: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the provisions her Department is making to accommodate school transport to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if her Department will sanction a much needed school bus and driver, both of which have been already sourced by parents of children attending the school. [2827/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Bus Éireann operates the school transport service on behalf of my Department. Routes are planned in such a way as to ensure that, as far as possible, eligible pupils have a reasonable standard of service, while at the same time ensuring that school transport vehicles are fully utilised in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

Bus Éireann have advised my Department that the pupils from the areas concerned have a level of service within the guidelines of the school transport scheme.