Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 124: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consideration has been given by him to allowing on an optional pilot basis for two teacher and three teacher schools for a one year period the option of receiving a block grant for school transport and allowing school in consultation with the local rural transport provider to provide the service themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10352/11]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Rural Transport Services are already considered by Bus Éireann, as one of the range of options currently available, for transporting children to and from school under the school transport scheme.

In the School Transport Value for Money Review, a number of possible approaches were considered through which the State could seek to support transport to school. The preferred option, as recommended in the report, is to continue with the organisation, on behalf of the State, of a school transport system as currently operated.