School Transport

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022

Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Questions (1168)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Question:

1168. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the number of successful applicants for the school transport scheme, separating those with concessionary places, and the number of unsuccessful applicants broken down by county in each of the past three years in tabular form. [41832/22]

Written answers

Minister for Education

School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the current school year over 121,400 children, including over 15,500 children with special educational needs, are transported on a daily basis to primary and post-primary schools throughout the country at a cost of over €289m in 2021.

Bus Éireann have provided the following information and tabular statement as requested by the Deputy.

- The 2019/20 school year data below is accurate as of 23/09/2019.

- The 2020/21 school year data below is accurate as of 11/01/2021.

- The 2021/22 school year data below is accurate as of 18/11/2021.

Please note some pupils who paid for transport provision, may have subsequently been accommodated with a ticket at a later date within the relevant school year. This information is the position at a specific date in time as outlined in the above three bullet points.

The first six columns relate to the number of Tickets Issued at a particular date. The last six columns relate to the number of pupils where no ticket issued.

	2019/2020		2020/2021		2021/2022		2019/2020		2020/2021		2021/2022
County	Eligible	Concessionary	Eligible	Concessionary	Eligible	Concessionary	Eligible	Concessionary	Eligible	Concessionary	Eligible	Concessionary
Carlow	1400	689	1365	669	1435	719	17	25	28	45	15	5
Cavan	2218	987	2131	972	2273	1033	113	71	98	73	65	103
Clare	2348	708	2272	688	2375	715	33	36	42	35	32	9
Cork	10459	3432	10213	3326	10819	3549	122	181	177	223	113	106
Donegal	6586	2096	6350	1941	6863	2004	63	37	157	76	54	37
Dublin	1639	339	1681	341	1817	392	58	48	21	18	35	23
Galway	6085	2226	5760	2081	6190	2427	40	55	192	136	171	104
Kerry	3507	1417	3346	1358	3516	1429	11	20	21	24	62	31
Kildare	3475	1393	3286	1283	3344	1333	73	93	59	73	63	87
Kilkenny	2212	1297	2166	1265	2231	1374	13	27	30	37	2	16
Laois	1111	326	1054	300	1099	328	8	1	4	18	16	2
Leitrim	1235	713	1160	633	1198	623	24	12	33	36	24	54
Limerick	3376	1171	3168	994	3374	1137	32	19	94	105	10	11
Longford	1381	706	1259	591	1344	635	16	8	24	48	22	16
Louth	2311	670	2377	603	2635	653	82	34	37	55	52	43
Mayo	3389	1245	3201	1039	3402	1097	40	11	125	42	57	23
Meath	2970	1573	2920	1500	2984	1562	67	70	34	73	69	110
Monaghan	2352	801	2385	725	2515	810	111	38	60	49	10	23
Offaly	1688	962	1592	851	1634	853	14	23	35	24	24	39
Roscommon	1058	516	980	464	1025	481	19	11	28	9	12	26
Sligo	1298	659	1193	619	1262	662	19	21	25	24	30	18
Tipperary	3262	1561	2939	1484	3204	1673	28	38	107	89	26	28
Waterford	1788	665	1771	611	1912	664	39	11	42	26	10	21
Westmeath	1763	749	1629	691	1723	726	22	21	52	34	16	35
Wexford	3863	1778	3766	1636	4013	1775	34	35	61	55	9	3
Wicklow	2332	891	2269	835	2382	835	61	19	37	51	31	90
Grand Total	75106	29570	72233	27500	76569	29489	1159	965	1623	1478	1030	1063