Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was not granted a bus ticket and if assistance will be offered to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34843/10]

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 children who attend 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 pupil mentioned by the Deputy, in the details supplied, is not eligible for school transport under the terms of the scheme outlined above. He should liaise with the local Bus Éireann office regarding the availability and cost of a ticket to avail of the mainline bus service referred to.