Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 2 June 2016, if he has specifically asked the auditors of Bus Éireann's statement of account to certify that the revenue he provides to Bus Éireann for school transport services is not used to cross-subsidise its other transport activities. [18522/16]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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Bus Éireann has provided assurances to my Department that any surplus that may arise in the operation of school transport services in any one year is ring-fenced exclusively for reinvestment in the school transport scheme.

The Department is satisfied that the financial accounting for Bus Éireann's operation of the School Transport Scheme, including the Bus Éireann Annual Report and the annual independently audited account of the school transport scheme is in full compliance with the 1975 Summary of Accounting Arrangements and with all relevant accounting standards and guidelines.