Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 511: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in the interest of child safety, she will draw up and fund a scheme for the introduction of safe vehicular set down and pick up areas outside schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30812/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The issue of road safety outside the vested site areas of primary schools is a matter for a local authority in the first instance.

Local authorities have the power to decide on appropriate road safety measures outside schools and should have the requisite measures in place to ensure the safety of pupils.

The Department addresses traffic safety measures within school boundaries. This is done as a matter of routine when providing new buildings or generally under the Summer Works Scheme where existing buildings are concerned.