Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the resources available to a family in homeless services that is in receipt of social welfare payments and have to drive their children to school each day (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2343/19]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Under the SWA Scheme a travel supplement is intended to assist with ongoing travel costs that cannot be met from the person's own resources and are deemed to be necessary. 

It is open to the person concerned to submit an application for financial assistance to meet travel costs. 

The person concerned should phone 0404 20400 to make an appointment to meet a Community Welfare Officer at the  Government Offices, The Murrough, Wicklow Town.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.