Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 385: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria and guidelines her Department has to ensure that children disembark at their designated drop off points; if each driver of a school bus has a listing of the children and their respective embarking and disembarking points; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22392/07]

Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has been advised by Bus Éireann, which operates the School Transport Scheme on its behalf, that all school bus tickets, both primary and post-primary, have the pick-up and set-down point clearly shown on them. Pupils are expected to disembark at their designated drop-off points as printed on their tickets. Parents/guardians also have a responsibility to ensure that their children arrive at, and are collected from, these pick-up and set-down points at the appropriate times.

It is not the general practice to provide school bus drivers operating within the Scheme with a listing of the pupils and their respective embarking and disembarking points.