James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport for a person (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36244/18]

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

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 remotely from their nearest school.

In the 2017/18 school year over 117,000 children, including almost 12,000 children with special educational needs, were 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 at a total cost of almost €190 million in 2017.

Bus Éireann has advised that the child in question commenced on school transport on 03 September 2018.

The terms of the School Transport Scheme are applied equitably on a national basis.