Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary applications for school transport for the 2017-18 school year by county; the number of which are new applications in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33746/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.

Currently almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,000 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually.

The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school.

I have asked Bus Éireann to issue the figures directly to the Deputy.