Michael Ring
Question:656 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Education and Science if the school transport service for Cong national school can be re-routed via Dringeen to collect children of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12088/01]
Written Answers - School Transport.
The children in question are not eligible for school transport, as they are not attending their nearest school.
My Department is prepared to offer concessionary fare-paying transport to the school concerned, subject to there being room available on the service after all eligible children have been accommodated, and provided no extra cost is involved by way of extending or altering the bus route.
It is not open to my Department to allow the rerouting of a service to facilitate pupils who are not eligible for transport under the terms of the school transport scheme.