asked the Minister for Education if she will arrange for free transport for pupils from the Ballyogan Estate, Carrickmines, County Dublin, to Holy Cross national school, Dundrum, Dublin 16, in view of the fact that (a) there are 80 primary school children on the estate (b) Sandyford national school has only ten free places and therefore cannot accept all these children (c) there is little or no prospect of building a school in Ballyogan for the children at Holy Cross and (e) the private bus operator who has been bringing the children to Holy Cross national school is no longer providing this service since Easter 1989 and many of the parents are on social welfare and cannot afford to pay bus fares.
Written Answers. - School Transport.
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The position is that it is not open to me under the Department's school transport scheme to arrange for free transport for pupils from the Ballyogan Estate, Carrickmines, County Dublin, to Holy Cross national school, Dundrum, Dublin 16, as the children concerned live within two miles of a nearest national school where accommodation exists to cater for the majority of them.