Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put all school bus routes online. [46685/13]

Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of my Department.

Bus Éireann has a dedicated school transport section on the Company website. All primary and post primary applications and payments, where applicable, may now be made on line.

Some 6,000 school transport routes are provided under the School Transport Scheme. Routes are designed on the basis of the locations of those children who are eligible for school transport facilities under the scheme. It is necessary in advance of each school year to review and, where required, to re-organise school bus routes to reflect demographic changes as new children enter the system and others leave. In light of this and in consideration of child protection concerns, there are currently no plans to place detailed information about the school transport operating network on line.