370. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide free school transport to all primary and post-primary school students in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35657/25]
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381. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason the free bus service to school drops for over-18-year-olds with disabilities who are still in education have ceased (details supplied). [35831/25]
409. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there has been a change to the school bus place application process for children with special educational needs; if she will outline the process for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36147/25]
228. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider extending the €50 primary school and €75 post-primary school annual school transport fee to other public transport services, for students who are not eligible for the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35051/25]
232. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current plans for Bus Éireann to follow through for a proposed bus service (details supplied). [35071/25]
233. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the due diligence in place between his Department and Bus Éireann to ensure public funds are spent for the purposes they are approved for. [35072/25]
411. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether consideration has been given to lifting the mandatory retirement age of 70 for school transport providers for children with special education needs, or to a temporary lifting of the age limit of 70 for drivers to ensure continuity of service to children with special education needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33866/25]
432. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education and Youth to clarify an issue concerning school transport in Gowran, County Kilkenny (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34187/25]
279. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of school transport applications submitted in County Louth from 2019 to 2025, along with the number of applications approved during the same period. [33263/25]
287. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to address a school transport issue as regards a dangerous school bus pick-up point in Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33338/25]
394. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider updating concessionary rules to align with the school transport scheme 2030, allowing students school choice rather than catchment restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31974/25]
398. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if school transport can be provided for a child (details supplied). [32005/25]
412. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth ; if she will review a school bus route to allow students to enrol in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32097/25]
416. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will establish a school bus route for the 30 plus secondary school children living in the Nenagh/Silvermines area travelling to Borrisoleigh daily. [32132/25]
430. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will consider correspondence (details supplied) around the school transport scheme grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32325/25]
98. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the up-to-date position on her engagement to date with the Department of Transport and Bus Éireann to increasing the upper age limit of drivers for school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31163/25]
101. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of applications who have been paid on time of the total tickets for school transport ahead of the 2025-26 school year; the number of these applications who have been classified as being eligible for tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31314/25]
122. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth regarding the Department's decision to not provide school transport for students of a school to their temporary location (details supplied), to outline the alternative options available to families for transport to the temporary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30985/25]
129. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 8 May 2025, if she will provide an update on her Department’s plan to publish a timeline for these pilot projects; if her Department has instructed Bus Éireann to change concessionary tickets to eligible tickets following pilot projects being completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31…
132. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the action her Department is taking to increase the number of school bus drivers in view of ongoing recruitment challenges of bus drivers under the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31252/25]
136. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the implementation of the review of the school transport scheme. [30837/25]
161. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Youth the plans, if any, her Department has to increase the capacity nationwide of school transport currently available organised under her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30867/25]
168. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will sanction the provision of a minibus to provide transport under the school transport scheme, to convey primary students from the Portlaoise area to where there is a shortage of transport to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31318/25]
334. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of applications to the school transport scheme in counties Cavan and Monaghan in each of the years 2020 to 2025 inclusive; the number of applicants by the date the scheme closed; the number of late applicants; the number of applicants who were medical card holders, by county, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the…
359. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the school transport review; in a case in which a student that attends an all girls primary school and wants to continue her secondary education in an all girls secondary school but there is no all girls school in her closest town will she be granted a bus ticket to travel to her nearest single sex school; and if sh…