asked the Minister for Education if he will consider providing a transport service for the children of the Kyle, Dunmore and adjoining districts who are at present experiencing great hardship travelling to Durrow school.

I have received no representations in regard to the question of providing a transport service for pupils attending this school and, in the absence of particulars of children who, it is stated, are experiencing great hardship travelling to the Durrow schools, I am not in a position to say whether State aid could be granted towards the cost of a transport service.

On receipt of an application from the manager of the Durrow schools or from the interested local parties giving the names and ages of the children in question and the distances of their respective homes from the nearest national school, I shall have the matter investigated.