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Thursday, 30 November 2017

Department of Education and Skills

School Transport Eligibility

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51327/17]

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

Currently over 114,000 children, including over 11,000 children with special educational needs, are being transported in over 4,500 vehicles on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country covering over 100 million kilometres annually.

Additional information relating to the children concerned was submitted to my Department. It remains the position that the children in question are not eligible for school transport.

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