Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a full reply will issue in respect of correspondence to her Department, regarding an application for a remote area grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if this person can appeal the decision. [14477/15]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Under the terms of my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme, a child who is eligible for school transport but for whom no transport service is available may, following an application for transport within the prescribed time limits, receive a Remote Area Grant towards the cost of private transport arrangements. This grant is also payable for eligible children who may have to travel 3.2 kilometres or more to or from a designated pick-up/set-down point. Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme, on behalf of the Department has advised that the child in question is eligible for school transport and resides 3.8 kilometres from the pick-up point of the service. Bus Éireann has further advised that the family in question applied for school transport in March 2015 for the 2015/16 school year, therefore the remote area grant to the pick-up point may be claimed from the beginning of the 2015/16 school year.

More detailed information on the Remote Area Grant is available on the Department's website at www.education.ie.

The School Transport Appeals Board examines and determines appeals against the school transport application process regarding the provision of school transport services and/or grant aid under the terms of the School Transport Schemes; full details on how to submit an appeal are available on the Department's website or by contacting School Transport Section at 057-9325466.