asked the Minister for Education the amount of money paid to CIE in respect of the student fares' subsidy in Dublin for the school year 1981-82.

Separate payments are not made in respect of Dublin city, but it is estimated that, of the total of £1,171,255 paid in the school year 1981-82, approximately 70 per cent would have benefited students in the Dublin city area.

Would the Minister accept that because of the recent cutbacks, he is imposing an additional £1 million on the parents of Dublin school children who must travel to school?

I have not decided. As the Deputy has said, that is the position.

Would the Minister accept that, in respect of those who would be travelling to primary schools — and I keep harping that the Constitution says that primary schools shall be free — that is an area to which he might apply his good sense and sense of justice, to see if anything could be done?

I have already replied in full and have nothing more to add to what I have said.