Written answers
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Department of Education and Skills
School Transport Provision
Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport service will be provided for a person (details supplied). [39127/18]
John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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School transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department.
In the 2017/18 school year over 117,000 children, including over 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 referred to by the Deputy has recently commenced on a school transport service.
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