I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 57 together.
The terms of my Department's School Transport Scheme are available on my Department and Bus Éireann websites. Included in the terms of the scheme are guidelines for travel and waiting times for children attending primary or post primary schools.
Bus Éireann is responsible for the planning and timetabling of school transport routes. Bus Éireann endeavours, within available resources, to ensure that each eligible child has a reasonable level of school transport service in the context of the Scheme nationally. Where practicable, and subject to considerations of cost and logistics, school transport routes for children attending primary schools are planned to avoid an eligible child having to travel more than 2.4 kilometres to or from a pick up/set down point or to have travel and waiting times in excess of 1.5 hours per day. Similar guidelines are applied for school transport services operating to post primary schools; travel and waiting times are 3.2 kilometres and 2.5 hours respectively.Routes are planned on the basis of the locations of children who are eligible for school transport only.
The level of detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available. In this regard I have asked Bus Éireann to forward such information as is available directly to the Deputy.