Written answers
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Department of Education and Skills
School Transport
10:00 pm
Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [20983/11]
Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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The correspondence referred to by the Deputy relates to changes in the School Transport Scheme which were announced by the previous Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government and derive from recommendations in the Value for Money Review of the scheme. The decisions announced included the uniform application of the distance requirement, the cessation of the Closed/Central School Rule (CSR), an increase in the minimum number of eligible children required to establish or retain a service and the introduction of charges for eligible primary pupils. It is essential to stress that the wider context within which all these changes are taking place, is a situation of the most serious financial difficulties. Under the four year recovery plan, there is a requirement to deliver savings of €17 million on the school transport budget and these measures are an integral part of this.
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