Written answers
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Department of Education and Skills
School Transport Applications Data
Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils who have applied for concessionary school transport for the current school year, by county; the number who were granted and refused respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42341/17]
John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.
During the 2016/17 school year almost 116,000 children, including some 12,000 children with special educational needs, were 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 information requested is as follows.
Concessionary school transport for 2017/18 School Year
County | No. of Applications | No. of Tickets issued | No Seats Available |
---|---|---|---|
Carlow | 772 | 624 | 12 |
Cavan | 1025 | 750 | 12 |
Clare | 720 | 590 | 0 |
Cork | 3790 | 3073 | 104 |
Donegal | 2238 | 1916 | 11 |
Dublin | 441 | 286 | 3 |
Galway | 2479 | 1981 | 32 |
Kerry | 1515 | 1326 | 11 |
Kildare | 1775 | 1274 | 31 |
Kilkenny | 1383 | 1191 | 49 |
Laois | 411 | 323 | 16 |
Leitrim | 703 | 620 | 1 |
Limerick | 1211 | 1032 | 10 |
Longford | 822 | 696 | 4 |
Louth | 756 | 520 | 0 |
Mayo | 1387 | 1063 | 9 |
Meath | 1856 | 1380 | 72 |
Monaghan | 901 | 626 | 15 |
Offaly | 1067 | 884 | 5 |
Roscommon | 582 | 476 | 0 |
Sligo | 672 | 590 | 1 |
Tipperary | 1709 | 1410 | 15 |
Waterford | 650 | 525 | 19 |
Westmeath | 891 | 706 | 17 |
Wexford | 2032 | 1640 | 34 |
Wicklow | 1054 | 784 | 21 |
Grand Total | 32842 | 26286 | 504 |
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