Written answers
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Department of Education and Skills
School Transport
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus decanting service will be provided for 66 students in County Mayo (details supplied) whose school has had to transfer locations for the first two terms of the school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34569/23]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The school have been approved funding under the Departments Additional School Accommodation Scheme for the provision of 2 Mainstream Classrooms. In order to facilitate the building of this new accommodation the school are being decanted to a temporary location for the duration of the construction project.
The Department have requested that the school organise the logistics of the decanting and return to the Department with the details of same. The school have been informed that the Department will cover the costs of the required decanting from the current school building.
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