Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 401: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the post primary school transport area at Patrickswell and Croom, County Limerick. [34956/07]

Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware from my reply to Parliamentary Question Number 477 of 23rd October, 2007, that the Post Primary School Transport Scheme is not designed to facilitate parents who choose to send their children to a post-primary centre outside of the catchment area in which they reside. I also advised the Deputy as to how applications for catchment boundary transport may be made.

I have no immediate plans to amend the terms of the scheme. Therefore, the existing eligibility criteria for school transport will continue to apply to all pupils, including those residing in the relevant catchment areas in County Limerick.

The Programme for Government includes a commitment to review the school transport scheme, including catchment boundaries. My Department is currently considering how best to progress this task.