asked the Minister for Education if he will make a statement on the introduction of a pilot scheme for school buses for the Tarbert comprehensive school catchment area, County Limerick with regard to its purpose; what it is hoped to achieve; and if he will confirm that only students within the recognised catchment area for this school will be provided with transport.
Written Answers. - School Transport.
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The question of introducing a pilot project under which the organisation of school transport would be devolved to local interests in a selected small number of areas, including the Tarbert area, for an experimental period, and the effects of these arrangements assessed, is under consideration.
It would not be envisaged within the arrangements for the operation of the proposed pilot schemes that transport would be available to pupils outside the catchment areas to the schools concerned other than under the normal catchment boundary conditions.