Written answers
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Department of Education and Science
School Transport
6:00 pm
Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 93: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding available for the provision of transport for a student (details supplied) in County Tipperary attending a school outside their catchment area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31826/09]
Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme, a pupil is eligible for transport if s/he resides 4.8 kilometres or more from her/his local post primary education centre.
The 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. However, children who are fully eligible for transport to the post-primary centre in the catchment area in which they reside, may apply for transport on a concessionary basis to a post-primary centre outside of their own catchment area – otherwise known as catchment boundary transport. These children can only be facilitated if spare seats are available on the bus after all other eligible children travelling to their local post-primary centre have been catered for. Such children have to make their own way to the nearest pick up point within that catchment area.
The Transport Liaison Officer for North Tipperary has advised that an application for school transport has not been received for the pupil referred to by the Deputy in the details supplied. The family of the pupil concerned should liaise with the Transport Liaison Office for North Tipperary regarding school transport provision.
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