Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a matter (details supplied) [35844/10]

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 school transport if s/he resides 4.8 kilometres or more from her/his local post primary education centre. 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. However, the pupil referred to by the Deputy, in the details supplied, resides less than 4.8 kilometres from his local post primary centre and is therefore not eligible for school transport.