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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 12 Dec 1989

Vol. 394 No. 4

Written Answers. - County Kerry School Transport.

259.

asked the Minister for Education if she will provide, on reconsideration, post-primary school transport for the child of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry to the pick-up point for Killarney at Poulgorm Bridge, in view of the fact that this would cost very little as there was a previous transport scheme for this area and the pupil concerned must rise at 6.15 a.m. each morning to walk to the pick-up point; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Under the terms of my Department's school transport scheme for post-primary schools, a pupil to be eligible for service must live three miles or more from his/her appropriate post-primary education centre, the distance being measured by the shortest walking route. Transport services are organised as a network, routes being planned so that no pupil will have more than three miles to travel to a pick-up point.

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