I join in the congratulations to our two new colleagues, Senators Lawlor and Marshall. I wish them well in their tenure in this House and look forward to engaging with them in that regard. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to address an issue with which hundreds of rural primary schools around the country are struggling. These are small schools located in rural areas. Many of their buildings are old buildings, which have usually been upgraded. Perhaps they might have an extension or something similar. In many cases, there are narrow and dangerous roads leading to these schools. Many of those schools were built at a time when the only traffic going to school was on foot. The students walked to school. That is the reality. There is a lot more traffic on the roads now and many of these schools struggle to provide proper traffic management and parking. A case in point is a school in my area at Barr na Caóige near Swinford.

An-mhaith.

The principal, Lorraine Bullard, has written to me and has set out the case very clearly. It is a case which would be repeated in many schools I know of. The school is on a narrow country road which has got busier because it leads to Ireland West Airport Knock. It is a two-teacher school. The only option for the staff is to park on the road. The only option for parents dropping off kids is to do so at the roadside. Cars are whizzing by on what is a substandard and inadequate road in any event. The Department will not assist the school in the provision of parking or traffic management and the local authority does not want to help either. In my view, road safety and traffic management should be the concern of both the local authority, in this case Mayo County Council, and the Department of Education and Skills. The reality is that if these students were fortunate enough to be getting a new school, the Department of Education and Skills would require traffic management and provision for children to get in and out of transport - cars or buses - safely. These schools cannot afford that because they are small. There needs to be co-operation.

The Senator should raise this as a Commencement matter.

Well I think the Minister should be invited in here to discuss this as an education issue because-----

The Leader can deal with that.

-----it is a policy. There should be co-operation between the local authorities and the Department of Education and Skills. Hard-pressed parents do not have money to buy land and to construct parking areas. It is a very serious issue. We do not want to see any accidents happening and there is a danger that they will.